Horn Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

I love the French horn.

I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.

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

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

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light.

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

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 up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?

That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?

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

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.

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.

You never toot your own horn.

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.'

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.