Quotes about trumpets / trumpet playing by trumpet players

junkyt

hey all,

i didn't know exactly where to post this, but since i'm mainly concerned with jazzers, i thought i'd start here.

do you have any favorite quotes by or about trumpets/trumpet players? i'm redesigning my web page, and would love to include some cool quotes.

post 'em if you got 'em!

thanks,
jason
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archer49d · Veteran Member Joined: 06 Jul 2004 Posts: 141

"Maynard someday you'll be king" - Stank Kenton

"I think Maynard Ferguson is the greatest brass player in this part of the twentieth century" - Bud Herseth

"It takes a very good drummer to be better than no drummer at all." - Chet Baker

"When you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that makes it good or bad" - Miles Davis

"They started together and ended together, but everything else was a mystery to me" - Harry James (talking about a bop concert)

“Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.” - Harry James

"If it makes you happy, do it. Music is my drug, man." - Maynard Ferguson

“Trumpet players should play, not talk.” - Maynard Feguson

"Don't be a cheapy cheapy musician" - Arturo Sandoval

"A Cornet is a musical instrument, whereas a Trumpet is a lump of plumbing used for earning money." - Don't know who said it, it's funny though (I'm a die hard trumpet guy myself)

"Trumpet players should date trumpet players, that way your song is Mahler 5, not 'I Saw the Sign'" - girl I know

jhatpro · Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 10:18 am Post subject:

"For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?" 1 Corinthians 14:8
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bearkatrumpet · Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:39 am Post subject:

Do not fear mistakes. There are none
--Miles Davis

NTlead · Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject:

See below.

Larry Smithee · Heavyweight Member Joined: 11 Nov 2001 Posts: 4399

Not spoken by a trumpet player but interesting anyway.

"Jazz is dead" (as quoted from an old Down Beat article). - Stan Kenton

cjdjazztpt · Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:01 pm Post subject:

"Everyone wants to be the Hero, but no one wants to slay the dragon!"
- Wynton Marsalis on the topic of practice

"Hardwork beats talent 8 days a week!"
- Marsalis
(This quote was made about those with incredible talent that do not practice and utilize their talents and those that do not have as much talent that work very very hard to achieve great results.)

swingintrpt · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 12:30 am Post subject:

PRogers · Heavyweight Member Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 953

Well, it sounds like Miles at least.

trjeam · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 9:19 am Post subject: re

here is a good list http://www.jazztrumpet.com/lessons/jazzquotes.html
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SatchmoGillespie · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 7:41 pm Post subject:

"I never tried to prove nothing, just wanted to give a good show. My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people."
-Louis Armstrong
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nowave · Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 2:20 pm Post subject:

Questioner to Lester Bowie: "Is jazz, as we know it, dead?"
Lester: "It depends on what you know."

PRogers · Heavyweight Member Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 953

Lester was the man.

the chief · Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 11:43 am Post subject:

"Don't worry about making money. You have to do what you're passionate about, then the money will come" - Arturo Sandoval.
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laurie · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 2:31 am Post subject:

The Flugel is your friend
The Trumpet is your spouse
Take care not to mix the two
Or you may loose your house...........

Cant recall where I stumbled across that one.............Thougfht it was kinda cute.....
Laurie
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trombapaul2 · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 7:12 am Post subject:

This wasn't by a trumpeter but it was said to a brass ensemble I was playing in:

"It ain't nuthin' if it ain't loud!"

Compliments of Ray Ferguson, longtime organist and harpsichordist with
the Detroit Symphony, who passed away in October of 2002.

Paul

AverageJoe · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:19 am Post subject:

From one of Miles' lessons with Vacchiano as a new student at Juilliard:

Vacchiano: "Ok. You are holding your Bb trumpet, and the music says trumpet in Eb. What do you do?"

Miles: "Put the horn back in the case, man..."

Paul Poovey
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the_lip · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 2:54 pm Post subject:

"Jazz, is never playing it the same way once." - Attributed to Art Blakey by my high school band director.
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swingintrpt · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:58 pm Post subject:

Syntax · Heavyweight Member Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 808

One of my most pondered...

"Playing the trumpet is hard because it is so easy." - Charles Schlueter

He's not a jazzer, but he sure can play!
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