Horn Quotes

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

Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.

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

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.

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.

I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

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

I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.

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

So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.