Famous quotes containing the words blue, cheer and/or band:
“My Father, it is surely a blue place
And straight. Right. Regular.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Yes, lad, I lie easy,
I lie as lads would choose;
I cheer a dead mans sweetheart,
Never ask me whose.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)
“The band waked me with a serenade. How they improve! A fine band and what a life in a regiment! Their music is better than food and clothing to give spirit to the men.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)