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Trumpeter Inspirational Quotes (614)

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The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.
Andrea Bocelli
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When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.
Freddie Hubbard
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Instrumental music can spread the international language.
Herb Alpert
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The bandstand is a sacred place.
Wynton Marsalis
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I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.
Brian McKnight
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I also always carry my flute. It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.
Andrea Bocelli
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The best way to be, is to do.
Wynton Marsalis
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Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.
Wynton Marsalis
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When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.
Hugh Masekela
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If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.
Bill Dixon
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I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.
Brian McKnight
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Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.
Hugh Masekela
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Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.
Brian McKnight
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Let the critics criticize and let the doers do.
Wynton Marsalis
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People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.
Andrea Bocelli
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
Vaughn Monroe
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In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done the same thing, even if I'd been born later, when Charlie Parker was influencing everybody. The truth is, I never gave it much thought. I just played what I had to play.
Benny Carter
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Music is an art that goes well beyond science. Proof can be found in the huge amount of studies that have been carried out throughout the world based on music-therapy and the important results achieved.
Andrea Bocelli
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I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.
Brian McKnight
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
Malcolm Arnold
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We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.
Lester Bowie
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The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.
Hugh Masekela
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Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.
Freddie Hubbard
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The arts speak across epochs. If you think that people started to build a cathedral in 1315 and the people worked on that cathedral, it wasn't going to be finished until 1585. So they were thinking 200 years from now. Maybe by the time I die, this wall might be put up.
Wynton Marsalis
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