Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton. Votes: 3
My first recollection is that of a bugle call. Votes: 1
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat. Votes: 1
Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Votes: 0
The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief's bugle, but where to blow it. Votes: 0
I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it. Votes: 0
O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying. Votes: -1
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.
O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.