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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• 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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• 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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  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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• All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Inspirational, Fun, Impossibility

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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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• 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.

  Bernie Worrell

  Writing, Cutting, Track

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• You never toot your own horn.

  Zakk Wylde

  Horny

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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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• Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!

  Jerome Richardson

  Character, Horny, Certain

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• My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

  Curtis LeMay

  Horny, Age, Would Be

  "Mission With LeMay: My Story" by Curtis E. LeMay, MacKinlay Kantor, (p. 565), 1965.

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• You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.

  Alice Cooper

  Yelling, Self, Cities

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• It's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It's the wind from the dinner horn that does it.

  O. Henry

  Wind, Horny, Doe

  "Heart of the West".

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• With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.

  Levon Helm

  House, Horny, Rhythm

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• And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.

  John Frusciante

  Life, Horny, Trying

  Interview with Evan C Chase, www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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• I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

  Herb Alpert

  Music, Morning, Exercise

  Twitter post from Feb 18, 2013

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• 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.

  Lee Konitz

  Player, Should Have, Horny

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• It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

  Richard Donner

  Movie, Hurt, Couple

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• 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.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

  Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”

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• Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Reason, Given, Obligation

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

  Sonny Rollins

  Play, Horny, Making Money

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