Musician Quotes

I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?
I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.
I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.
I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.
It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.
My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.
Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.
Thank the good Lord for a job.
The bandstand is a sacred place.
The best way to be, is to do.
The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.
The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.
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