Brass Band Music Quotes & Sayings

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

If bullshit were music, you'd be a big brass band, — A Meredith Walters

The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease. — Illinois Jacquet

I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was headed back east to study music, and if I hadn't been intrigued with the Native American flute, I suppose I'd now be jockeying for first chair of the brass section of some orchestra, or perhaps I'd be teaching music in a school system. — R. Carlos Nakai