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Trombonist Inspirational Quotes (18)

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Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
J. J. Johnson
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Fred Sturm has proven to be a great asset to the musical world as a teacher, composer and author. His gifts have enriched the musical life of all the people who have been fortunate enough to share his wisdom and musicality.
Bob Brookmeyer
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Bebop has set music back twenty years.
Tommy Dorsey
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All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.
Jack Teagarden
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Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.
Chris Barber
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This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?
Bob Brookmeyer
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
J. J. Johnson
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There will never come a time when you don't have to practice
J. J. Johnson
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You blow in this end of the trombone and sound comes out the other end and disrupts the cosmos.
Roswell Rudd
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I have only been working in the office for a few months, but I already have a development plan and had the opportunity to job shadow someone in a role that is of interest to me.
Chris Barber
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I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!
Tommy Dorsey
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A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.
Chris Barber
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My boyfriend dumped me. My best friend won't talk to me. My future is in a garbage can. Everything has turned to crap. Can you please just let me be a sullen teenager. just this once
J. J. Johnson
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Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.
Chris Barber
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Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England Conservatory were indeed a gift -- he is a pianist with unlimited potential and a composer that makes my heart sing. I deeply feel that he is an important musician for the coming years.
Bob Brookmeyer
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Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it up. Nothing is going through your mind you're not thinking of anything. Every now and then you surprise yourself. Where did that come from?
Jimmy Knepper
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There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!
J. J. Johnson
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In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.
Chris Barber