Top 221 Brass Quotes & Sayings

As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?

If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.

Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.

I always felt like the UFC brass kind of had it out for me.

Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin.

Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money... I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town. The hotels... brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms. It was the crowd, rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep. Shoot, I'd play for nothing!

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees.

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.

Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.

Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.

Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.

Never look encouragingly at the brass, except with a short glance to give an important cue.

There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift.

Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.

The golden years are for pussies. We went straight to brass.

If you’re in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.

Brass bands are part of my upbringing. Brass band records were among the first records I listened to.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Of current British stuff, 'Brass Eye' was one of my favorite shows.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

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.

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

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

Brass has a very distinctive sound. It's delicate but powerful, but it's also melancholic and plaintive.

I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.

It feels much more natural to move forward and grow with the instruments I've grown accustomed to. Piano, accordion, brass, ukulele.

If only there was a way I could cover my tension with the scent of eau de brass valls instead.

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.

The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.

Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass.

The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

Brass, stay down all summer.

Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

If you think back to the beginning of the label, we knew we had to strike quickly and aggressively and go for the brass ring.

I've grown up in the Treme, and I played in a bunch of brass bands. My brother, James Andrews, had a brass band.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

I grew up listening to the Neville Brothers and the Rebirth Brass Band.

I was actually in Japan when I had the conversation with the TNA brass about my situation coming to an end with them.