Famous quotes containing the words upright and/or bass:
“I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in questionto be defended from the beginning to the end.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“How are we to know that a Dracula is a key-pounding pianist who lifts his hands up to his face, or that a bass fiddle is the doghouse, or that shmaltz musicians are four-button suit guys and long underwear boys?”
—In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)