Top 352 Horn Quotes & Sayings

I'm a jazz musician in that I have achieved Grade 3 on the French horn.

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

In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.

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

I love the French horn.

Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.

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

An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?

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

Ethiopia is an island of stability within the Horn of Africa, which is a troubled region.

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

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.

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

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

If you own face paint and a bulb horn and you're not a circus clown, you might be uncool.

Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issue through the burnished horn, What man soe'er beholds them on his bed, These work with virtue and of truth are born.

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

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

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

Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway of honest horn, and one of ivory. Issuing by the ivory gate are dreams of glimmering illusion, fantasies, but those that come through solid polished horn may be borne out, if mortals only know them.

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

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

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

I think we should only get 3 honks a month on the car horn. Then, someone cuts you off, you press the horn, and nothing happens. You're like, "Crap! I wish I hadn't seen Ricky on the sidewalk!"

The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented.

The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.

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

I have been injured 37 times, in seven cases seriously. I've already had a cornada (horn-wound) at stomach level. A bull's horn once struck me in the neck, just below the larynx. And once I was hit in the upper leg, where he damaged the femoral artery and the saphenous vein. Injuries are my medals. The last injury is my worst cornada. Now I've won the gold.

Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some with cruel, masters) and should probably starve if we got out of our cage. That is one horn of the dilemma. But in an increasingly planned society, how much of what I value can survive? That is the other horn.

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

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

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

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

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

You never toot your own horn.

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

So much leather inside my car my horn moos.

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

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

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

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

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

I could just play my horn in my room for 20 minutes a day, and I will be happy.

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

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!

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.

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

Don’t blow your own horn, or you might just miss the music.

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

I want to be rich enough that, without being cruel, I could buy a horse, a white horse, and permanently attach a horn. A pearlescent horn. And then I could just be like, 'Yeah, I have a unicorn.' But I don't know how you do that without being cruel.

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

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

If you don't toot your own horn, it goeth untooted.

Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket

I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.

It's not me to toot my horn. The minute you toot your horn, it seems like society will try and disconnect your battery. And if you do not toot your horn, they'll try their darnedest to give you a horn to toot, or say that you should have a horn.

I played French horn, and I certainly do miss it. I miss it. I wish I had the time to keep up with it. It's like exercising: You have to keep it up, especially the muscles in your lips to deal with the French horn.

I started off with the flute and French horn, and then I was playing trumpet in the jazz band.

I took my uniqueness and treated it like a horn.

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