Horn Quotes

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

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.

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

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.

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

I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

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

I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

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.

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.

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

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