Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have to get down to the brass tacks. If this is going to move, we, as tribal leaders, have got to put a (settlement) figure in this bill. Right now, it's blank. We can't leave it blank.

She connected with the military in a way I know they appreciate, not only the brass but the serving soldiers who saw someone who had made a point of getting to know them.

Let's get down to brass tacks. How much for the ape?

Benicio Toro

Let's get down to brass tacks here, man. How much for the ape?

Jason Calacanis

Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring.

Trombone Shorty

When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band.

Frankie Dettori

I couldn't shake Brass Hat off. He was always a threat.

He's a trumpet player so having a winds and brass focus is a real treat. He's very passionate and level headed and not the kind of director who throws things at you.

Hit television show American Idol is the perfect example of this. Thousands of hopefuls sing their heart out (sometimes very badly) for a shot at the brass ring of fame. Now, it looks like all you have to do is log on to eBay and make a bid.

He got up and headed, he was going to go to the computer, and I said, 'No, it's not the computer. I could see the big brass buttons reflecting light (through the front door). That's a sight I'll never forget. There's something inside of me that still says to this day, if we just hadn't opened the door.

Gary Wright

I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

Illinois Jacquet

The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.

Eberhard Weber

Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.

We don't need any more principles now. We need to get down to brass tacks and get an agreement.

Paul Fleischman

I'm a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn't spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter.

The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted.

Robert Thompson

The music is secondary. The real pull is watching people grab for the brass ring. They're climbing the ladder. This is the great American story.

And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.

George Duke

They had too many classical piano players. I didn't have their chops. I couldn't keep up with them. But they also had a brass scholarship for trombone and they didn't have any trombone players. So I knew I could get that one!

Horace

I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

Horace

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

Mark White

The synth allows me to breathe with woodwind and brass players and opens up phrasing possibilities not possible with standard guitar.

The brass in this instrument has been in use for nearly 500 years. Modern products often serve our needs for a few years or months before discard, jeopardizing the sustainable use of scarce metal resources.

They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

Taxpayer money shouldn't be spent on horoscopes, if the top military brass want their horoscopes done they should pay for it like everyone else.

For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.

Scott Turow

I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle Seymour made, a brass grotesque he mounted on a marble base. And my grandfather's shaving cup is there, used to store pencils and pens.

Red Barber

It's so cold today even the brass monkeys have stayed home!

Each of the other destroyers pulled up next to the Missouri for its special passengers to go aboard, but not the Lansdowne. We were ordered to stop a nice distance away, and the Japanese delegation was forced to take a small launch to the Missouri. The brass wanted to rub their faces in it.

Joss Whedon

I've had so much success. I had something to say, I got to say it, people heard it, and they agreed. That's every artist's dream. That's the brass ring.

Jon Tester

I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds - but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn't say, 'My God, that guy can play.' It'd probably sound more like Jack Benny.

Mal Peet

In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.

Frankie Dettori

I didn't know I was going to win it until the last 20 yards or so because I couldn't shake Brass Hat off. He kept coming back.