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Trumpeter Inspirational Quotes (614)

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I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.
Brian McKnight
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I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.
Herb Alpert
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My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something.
Andrea Bocelli
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I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
Herb Alpert
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I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.
Brian McKnight
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Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.
Dizzy Gillespie
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My style in Italian is very old-style.
Andrea Bocelli
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I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that's what I got back to.
Brian McKnight
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I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.
Jeff Healey
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It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me.
Andrea Bocelli
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To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.
Arturo Sandoval
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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.
Wynton Marsalis
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When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.
Brian McKnight
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I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.
Andrea Bocelli
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Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.
Wynton Marsalis
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Jazz music is the power of now.
Wynton Marsalis
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[Lee Morgan] was the only young cat that scared me when he played. He had so much fire and natural feeling. I had more technique, but he had that feeling. People seemed to like him more than they like me at the beginning.
Freddie Hubbard
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Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.
Brian McKnight
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If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.
Bill Dixon
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But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about something of value, it's not just loud. It doesn't have that violent connotation to it. I wanted to be a jazz musician so bad, but I really couldn't. There was no way I could figure out to learn how to play.
Wynton Marsalis
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They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back looking for that.
Lester Bowie
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'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting emotions, of sleepless nights.
Andrea Bocelli
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If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.
Don Ellis
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Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get.
Wynton Marsalis
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