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Your Quotes for 6 November 2005 - Brass

It was a brassy day in history today. Antoine-Joseph (Adolphe) Sax was born at Dinant, Belgium on this day in 1814, forty years later John Phillip Souza was born at Washington City. I fear there are no tuba or saxophone entries in the database, we're pretty much limited to trumpets.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
     - Agnes de Mille, 1905 - 1993

With the pride of an artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance.
     - Norman Mailer

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
     - Theodore M. Hesburgh

If you wish in this world to advance
Your merits you're bound to enhance;
  You must stir it and stump it,
  And blow your own trumpet,
Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
     - William S. Gilbert, 1836 - 1911

There is a spirit in us ... that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash - all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.
     - Laurence Olivier

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
     - Baltasar Gracian, 1601 - 1658

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