Horns Quotes

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  I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Music, Horny, Heard

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  The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

  Tucker Max

  Temptation, Deep Thought, Wish

  Tucker Max (2011). “Assholes Finish First”, p.321, Simon and Schuster

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• From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown.

  Chris Murphy

  Wings, Fear Of The Unknown

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

  William Shakespeare

  Laughter, Laughing, You Like It

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 2, l. [17]

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• Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Horny, Devil

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.339

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  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.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Men

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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• Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Life, Choices

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• You never toot your own horn.

  Zakk Wylde

  Horny

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• All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Inspirational, Fun, Impossibility

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• Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Memories, Hunting, Wind

  "Cors de Chasse" (1912)

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• Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.

  Paul Gleason

  Men, Bulls, Breakfast

  "Fictional character: Richard Vernon". "The Breakfast Club", 1985.

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

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Reality

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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

  Will Rogers

  Life And Love, Business, Blow

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• I wish I could score everything for horns.

  Richard Wagner

  Horny, Wish, Score

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• 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.'

  Clarence Clemons

  Song, Player, Horny

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

  Jay McShann

  Horny, Bulldogs, Used

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

  Steve Lacy

  Horny, Tunes, Fit

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• 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.

  Ornette Coleman

  New Orleans, Hair, Long

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• 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?

  Franz Schubert

  Art, Blow, Horny

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

  Norman Wisdom

  Play, Piano, Horny

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Life, Mother, Horny

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• 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.

  Ewan McGregor

  Thinking, Horny, Band

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2002.

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• I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

  Levon Helm

  Horny, Sound, Band

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• 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.

  Jerry Lawler

  Thinking, Years, Horny

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

  William Henry Ashley

  Wind, Rivers, Horny

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