Ella Fitzgerald
Jazz Singer
"I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns."
Horns quotes
Horns
50 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Billie Holiday
Singer
"I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel."
James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman."
Alan Watts
Philosopher, Writer
"...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns."
Miles Davis
Musician
"You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played"
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"Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns"
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"Hey, angel, your horns are sticking up."
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"So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head."
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"God sends a curst cow short horns."
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"A curst Cow hath short hornes. [A curst cow has short horns.]"
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"I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn."
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"Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket"
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