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Trumpeter Inspirational Quotes (614)

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It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'.
Don Ellis
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The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.
Tom Harrell
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Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.
Brian McKnight
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There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.
Lee Morgan
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Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.
Andrea Bocelli
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Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
Wynton Marsalis
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I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.
Brian McKnight
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Kanye West hasn't really done anything worthwhile-- except maybe musically, I haven't heard him. But he hasn't overthrown the government.
Ian Svenonius
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It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.
Andrea Bocelli
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The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind.
Jeff Healey
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Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.
Ornette Coleman
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We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems start to fail, it's only a cultural understanding that allows you to reconstruct them and to get back to who you are. For some reason, it hasn't dawned on us yet.
Wynton Marsalis
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It's important for me who is at the table with me the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.
Andrea Bocelli
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Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Doc Severinsen
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You'd hear Willie Nelson, then Earth, Wind & Fire, then Chicago, then Billy Joel on the same radio station. Nowadays, everything is compartmentalized.
Brian McKnight
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How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life, understanding what it means to be a global citizen in the most modern sense.
Wynton Marsalis
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You can't sing about love unless you know about it.
Billy Eckstine
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I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for someone who loves voices as I do, this is an enormous privilege.
Andrea Bocelli
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I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me.
Ornette Coleman
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Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.
Ornette Coleman
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To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you forever.
Chris Botti
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I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
Chuck Mangione
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I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved invaluable in putting this masterful CD (Yesterdays & Today) together.
Clark Terry
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Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
Herb Pomeroy
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