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“Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.”

Men War Faces Father Black Band Army Salvation Atheist Clubs Mask Skeletons Brass Salvation Army Black Face Brass Bands Ribald

Author:A. E. Coppard

“As fog moved to the mainland I heard a flock of birds fly over. They sounded like a dress rustling, a dress being unfastened and dropping to the floor. Fog came unpinned like hair. On the beach cliffs, great colonies of datura - jimson weed - with their white trumpet flowers, looked like brass bands.”

White Heard Flower Hair Band Bird Dresses Moved Beach Weed Fog Cliffs Dropping Flocks Trumpets Colony Brass Brass Bands

Book:A match to the heart

Source: A match to the heart

“we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.”

People Needs Bigs Jobs Behinds Player Band Guitar Ireland Parades Guitar Player Brass Whistling Brass Bands

Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.”

“I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance.”

Dream Turns Courses Sound Doors Band Miles Fifty Melancholy Miles Away Nuisance Brass Bagpipes Brass Bands

Author:Thomas Beecham

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

Boys Couple Band Why Not Brass My Boys Brass Bands

Author:Thomas Beecham

“They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.”

Writing Firsts Wells Doe Born Natural Band Ears Caught British Parks Carts Brass Charlatans Hyde Hyde Park Brass Bands

Book:Three Plays for Puritans

Source: Three Plays for Puritans

“I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.”

Inspiration Memories Heard Childhood Example Band Tradition Performances Excellence Charity Males British Variety Royal Choir Brass Happy Memories Brass Bands British Music

Author:Michael Parkinson

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

Thinking Mind Kind Band Wings Of My Mind Brass Brass Bands

Author:Charles Ives

“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.”

“As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around 13 or 14 years old, they took me off the bugle and put me in the little brass band.”

Years Littles Home Band Institutions New Orleans Youngsters Brass Orphanage Brass Bands

Author:Louis Armstrong