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Trumpeter Inspirational Quotes (614)

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I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.
Hugh Masekela
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It seems to me that most people are impressed with just three things: how fast you can play, how high you can play, and how loud you can play.
Chet Baker
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I'm a person of change and I must be honest to my artistry and my creativity. That's part of the word 'jazz'... it's an adventure.
Maynard Ferguson
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I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.
Andrea Bocelli
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It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life.
Andrea Bocelli
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Like stars across the sky, we were born to shine.
Andrea Bocelli
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Tis better to hit an air ball, than to force a note that don't wanna come out.
Nicholas Payton
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The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.
Andrea Bocelli
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What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?
Wynton Marsalis
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We started to confuse entertainment with art, because art has a component of entertainment. It has to have that or it becomes too boring. It becomes too lost in its own devices. But I just think that we started to lose, and even before that, it's not necessary.
Wynton Marsalis
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I've been to almost every country in the world, and the most frustrating thing for me has been that my schedule has always been so busy that there's so little time before and after performances to explore where I'm visiting.
Andrea Bocelli
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In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers gangs, he would be asked if he could sing. If he could he got the job. The singing of these working men set the rhythm for the work.
William Christopher Handy
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Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.
Wynton Marsalis
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Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.
Chuck Mangione
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Now, as for this new breed of musicians with their 'ultrasonic' conservatory technique, I say: So What. Tell me a story from the heart of your soul and what your existence in this Universe is all about!
Woody Shaw
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I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs.
Ornette Coleman
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Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.
Wynton Marsalis
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Because people really got tired, too, of the same old formatted sort of thing, and the same old formatted music.
Lester Bowie
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You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.
Chet Baker
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I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.
Hugh Masekela
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I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.
Herb Alpert
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I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.
Wynton Marsalis
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Jazz groups have to make a living any way.
Lester Bowie
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I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review.
Wynton Marsalis
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