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Trumpeter Inspirational Quotes (614)

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I've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics.
Brian McKnight
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And my identity...I never really wondered about it because, unfortunately, I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.
Wynton Marsalis
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The hardest thing to do in this business is to still be around. When music changes, when labels' resources have dried up, it becomes harder and harder to continue to make a living at this.
Brian McKnight
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The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.
Dizzy Gillespie
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I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.
Andrea Bocelli
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Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician.
Wynton Marsalis
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I hate to see the evening sun go down.
William Christopher Handy
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I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.
Lester Bowie
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I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that.
Wynton Marsalis
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An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.
Andrea Bocelli
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The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.
Bill Dixon
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I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.
Andrea Bocelli
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The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable but not visible. It's always there. Jazz highlights it because musicians and jazz always represented a high level of integrity.
Wynton Marsalis
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I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.
Wynton Marsalis
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I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.
Ornette Coleman
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A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.
Andrea Bocelli
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I have often read critical pieces where the critic said that what the composer was trying to do didn't come off. I have wondered what the critic meant if he didn't know what the composer was trying to do.
Ornette Coleman
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If you don't have the possibility of listening to music, you can't know if you love it.
Andrea Bocelli
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It's either hip or it ain't.
Lee Morgan
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Saving was slow and painful.
William Christopher Handy
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One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?
Bix Beiderbecke
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I was overcome with happiness, love, and tenderness ... Right after he was washed, I studied him with my hands: his downy little head, his little nose, everything on the tiny body.
Andrea Bocelli
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There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.
Dizzy Gillespie
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In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.
Bill Dixon
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