Quotes about Horn

He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly. Votes: 3

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical. Votes: 3

Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus. Votes: 3

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation. Votes: 3

Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind. Votes: 3

I would work with Trevor Horn any day of the week. I have a great relationship with him. Votes: 3

My favorite team while I was growing up was the New Orleans Saints. My favorite player was Joe Horn. Votes: 3

The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide. Votes: 3

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in. Votes: 3

What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them. Votes: 3

Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly. Votes: 3

Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn. Votes: 3

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up. Votes: 3

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa. Votes: 3

As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United States and Europe. Votes: 3

Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks. Votes: 3

I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth. Votes: 3

I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz. Votes: 3

With respect to the situation in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, in both countries the Soviet Union had been working hard to create an infrastructure of those who shared their point of view and were prepared to take over the countries. Votes: 3

There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean. Votes: 3

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano. Votes: 2

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn. Votes: 2

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far. Votes: 2

I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits. Votes: 2

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play. Votes: 2

Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back. Votes: 2

I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn. Votes: 2

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra. Votes: 2

It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it. Votes: 2

One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art? Votes: 2

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument. Votes: 2

Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises. Votes: 2

Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today. Votes: 2

Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off. Votes: 2

My best and worst 'Idol' moments? I don't have a worst 'Idol' moment... I've been spectacular. Yes, I am going to toot my own horn. And then my best moment is every single moment. I'll toot it again! Votes: 2

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. Votes: 2

I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose, and I generally say I don't play one so I don't have to acknowledge it. I also play fife. Votes: 2

I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles. Votes: 2

Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn, and don't wait for anyone to praise you. Votes: 2

There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it. Votes: 2

Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls. Votes: 2

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. Votes: 2

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on. Votes: 2

I hate to toot my own horn but I just feel that I know people and I know fans and I don't feel there is that Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt barrier with me. I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me. Votes: 2

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody. Votes: 2

You've got to be really careful about what you say and do anywhere you are. I actually had a dream about being in parking garage and having somebody in front of me taking too long to get their change and honking the horn and then yelling back, and getting out and yelling at each other and then seeing it on YouTube the next day. Votes: 2

I love the French horn. Votes: 0

I love the French horn. Votes: 0

You never toot your own horn. Votes: 0

Blow your life through your horn. Votes: 0

I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer. Votes: 0

So much leather inside my car my horn moos. Votes: 0

Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket Votes: 0

I don't get involved in politics. I just blow my horn. Votes: 0

He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.] Votes: 0

The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn. Votes: 0

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. Votes: 0

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played Votes: 0

The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire. Votes: 0

As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing. Votes: 0

Don't blow your own horn, or you might just miss the music. Votes: 0

It never hurts to toot your own horn once in a while. Votes: 0

He who tooteth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooted. Votes: 0

If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music. Votes: 0

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn. Votes: 0

But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn. Votes: 0

My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn. Votes: 0

If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble. Votes: 0

A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions. Votes: 0

Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! Votes: 0

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! Votes: 0

If you don't toot your own horn, someone else will use it as a spittoon. Votes: 0

Just because a guy rings your bell, doesn't mean you have to toot his horn. Votes: 0

Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born. Votes: 0

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn."[Brigs of Ayr] Votes: 0

Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born. Votes: 0

Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Votes: 0

And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight. Votes: 0

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad. Votes: 0

If you can do something and not blow your own horn, it sure sounds a lot better. Votes: 0

Who's elk horn do I have to blow in order to get something to eat around here? Votes: 0

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting. Votes: 0

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go. Votes: 0

You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it. Votes: 0

The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying. Votes: 0

We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. Votes: 0

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. Votes: 0

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello. Votes: 0

Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back. Votes: 0

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor Votes: 0

Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it. Votes: 0

We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out. Votes: 0

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel. Votes: 0

If you can't toot your own horn, toot another woman's! It's the best way to elevate women to be leaders. Votes: 0

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards. Votes: 0

I shouldn't toot my own horn, but he who doth not toot his own horn alloweth it to remain untooteth. Votes: 0

I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again. Votes: 0

Satan is around y'all. Devil on your shoulder. All these niggas is corn, sworn in secret societies, devils with no horn. Votes: 0

The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen. Votes: 0

Peter Marshall: A western saddle has a curved horn on the front to hold something for the cowboy. What is it? Votes: 0

Studies have shown that children are less likely to wake up to a horn than the sound of a mother's voice. Votes: 0

Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth. Votes: 0

I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm recognized. Votes: 0

Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn! Votes: 0

Bush to USSS: 'We need to get back to Wash. We don't need some tin horn terrorist to scare us off.' Votes: 0

Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one horn. Votes: 0

When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly. Votes: 0

One thing that's great about the sax is that you can always get better with the horn and improve upon what you did. Votes: 0

Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words. Votes: 0

A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that. Votes: 0

Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden! Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas! Votes: 0

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band. Votes: 0

Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity. Votes: 0

I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually. Votes: 0

We know that the world is not resting on the horn of a bull; we also know that it rests on the horn of lies! Votes: 0

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them. Votes: 0

He turned around to see the bass drum popping and the horn sections pointing their instruments to the balconies and sending glorious notes to the rooftops. Votes: 0

And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun. Votes: 0

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn. Votes: 0

As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn. Votes: 0

Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn. Votes: 0

I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like. Votes: 0

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival. Votes: 0

The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work. Votes: 0

Percy looked at his friends. "I'm getting tired of this guy's shirt." "Combat time?" Piper grabbed her horn of plenty. "I hate wonder bread," Jason said. Together, they charged. Votes: 0

I think playing a horn has had a great influence on my singing. I've tried to approach singing from an instrumental mindset. Space is just as important as sound. Votes: 0

The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield, and the horn of my salvation; my stronghold. Votes: 0

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's Votes: 0

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life. Votes: 0

You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's in your heart, you express yourself in the tune. Votes: 0

I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way. Votes: 0

If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy. Votes: 0

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. Votes: 0

Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk. Votes: 0

I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold horn ring, bottle openers, my 'Fallen' leather jacket and my Slither black and white sweater. Votes: 0

In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that. Maybe in Harry Pussy I was listening to more horn players. Votes: 0

I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn. Votes: 0

Even If I have two three days off, you still have to blow that horn. You have to keep up those chops... I have to warm up everyday for at least an hour. Votes: 0

In the Third World, honk your horn only under the following circumstances: 1. When anything blocks the road. 2. When anything doesn't. 3. When anything might. 4. At red lights. 5. At green lights. 6. At all other times. Votes: 0

Edward Isaac Bickert in never one to blow his own horn - figuratively - he is one of the most modest and unassuming men in Jazz. But literally - he blows up a storm . Votes: 0

When I have the beard on I have people behind me in traffic honking their horn. I'm thinking "how in the world?" But it's the beard - it's kind of the stand out thing. Votes: 0

The oboe's a horn made of wood. I'd play you a tune if I could, But the reeds are a pain, And the fingering's insane. It's the ill wind that no one blows good. Votes: 0

So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that. Votes: 0

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn. Votes: 0

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape. Votes: 0

Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege! Votes: 0

The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure. . . . a tomato, an adventure. Votes: 0

One thing I point out is, a lot of people tooting the horn of amateurism, actually, these people were professionals. Some are professors who are employed full time. Others are marketers or business consultants. Votes: 0

When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes. Votes: 0

When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player. Votes: 0

I don't think it's blowing my own horn to say the show is not as good. There was chemistry there that took years and years to build and now that's gone. The commentary is lacking. Votes: 0

I feel like I'm pretty good but I don't like to toot my own horn, you know. I want to let the work speak for itself and kind of move on to the next thing. Votes: 0

We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year. Votes: 0