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Trumpeter Inspirational Quotes (614)

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I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.
Brian McKnight
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Bebop has set music back twenty years.
Tommy Dorsey
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The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.
Lester Bowie
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People said I'd never make 35, then I'd never make 40, 45 now I'm almost 50, so Im beginning to think maybe they might be wrong.
Chet Baker
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When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play but I couldn't.
Wynton Marsalis
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Jazz music celebrates life! Human life the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its... It deals with it!
Wynton Marsalis
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Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
Wynton Marsalis
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I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.
Wynton Marsalis
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I don't like the triumphalism of the American narrative, this kind of chosen people complex that American people have, so it's inspiring to see people snub their noses at the American empire and succeed.
Ian Svenonius
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The people are not coming because of me. They didn't come before me. It's because of a lack of education and understanding, so it makes me more motivated. It's like my mother said about having an artistic child - she learned more from him and he gets more attention and more of the love, not less.
Wynton Marsalis
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In New Orleans, you can pitch a rock and hit a great trumpeter.
Christian Scott
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I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
Brian McKnight
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More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.
Andrea Bocelli
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They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.
Dizzy Gillespie
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All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body--like radiation, cancer, and all.
Ornette Coleman
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With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy.
Chuck Mangione
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The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the forefathers of our music - Jelly Roll Morton - they're not preaching a separatist agenda. They're not taking their music and saying, This is for me.
Wynton Marsalis
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Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in classical, it's all on the page and the difficulty is keeping up with the music.
Brian McKnight
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I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father was a health inspector my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic - schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer - and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician.
Hugh Masekela
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The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.
Wynton Marsalis
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Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.
Wynton Marsalis
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When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others.
Andrea Bocelli
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I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.
Andrea Bocelli
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I soon became aware that there wasn't enough time or opportunity to kiss all the girls in the world. The best thing is to stay cool - just be choosy and wait for the right opportunity.
Chet Baker
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