Best Trombone Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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“Sometimes my duck soup tastes like melted saxophone jazz, only more metallic. That's why I spice it up with trombone solo in liquid format.”

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Book:Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“I came to that wooden marching band. I stopped and looked. There was a trumpet, trombone, clarinet, and drum. Birds don't live alone, I told myself. They live in flocks. Like people. People are always in a group. Like that little wooden band.”

People Band Birds Clarinet Trombone Drum Trumpet Whirligig

Book:Whirligig

Source: Whirligig

“The Prince stood beside the timpanist to count his rests for him and see that he came in in the right place. I suppressed all the trumpet passages which were clearly beyond the players' grasp. The solitary trombone was left to his own devices; but as he wisely confined himself to the notes with which he was thoroughly familiar, such as A flat, D and F, and was careful to avoid all others, his success in the role was almost entirely a silent one.”

Comedy Composer Orchestra Conductor Trombone

Book:The Memoirs

Source: The Memoirs

“The whirligig featured a drummer, a trumpet player, a clarinetist, and a man with a trombone. It was a leap beyond the spouting whale, with more figures, a six-bladed propeller, and a much more complex system of rods and pivots that made the instruments dip and rise as if the musicians were marching.”

Musician Drummer Clarinet Trombone Marching Band Whale Propeller Trumpet Whirligig

Book:Whirligig

Source: Whirligig

“I managed to combine a saxophone and a trombone into one musical sound. Then I powdered it and sealed it in a can, so when you’re ready to enjoy it just add water and stir.”

Humor Sound Water Music Absurd Surreal Saxophone Trombone

Book:Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

Source: Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

“The red-jacketed band stirred to life. The first musician raised his trumpet. The trombone dipped. The drumstick rose. Lea lowered her clarinet. It had been Brent's idea not to have their insturments rise and fall in unison. The staggered motion gave it a more exciting rhythm.”

Music Band Rhythm Musicians Clarinet Trombone Drums Trumpet Whirligig

Book:Whirligig

Source: Whirligig

“Those people obviously don't know who I think I am.”

Jazz Funk Trombone James Brown

Author:Fred Wesley Jr.

“I never felt like that in my life. I didn't know human beings played these instruments. I heard them in Chicago and Louisville and St. Louis all my life, you know? But I didn't know human beings played them, you know? So the next day I went to Coontz Junior High School and I started on sousaphone, tuba, B-flat baritone, E-flat alto, French horn, trombone.”

“My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone.”

Different Together Moving Sound Instruments Visuals Orchestra Trombone Auditory

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of "Daydream" in a lot of elevators.”

Versions Unlimited Daydreaming Elevators Trombone

Author:John Sebastian

“Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's redefined Latin jazz!”

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Author:Michael Brecker

“I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!”

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Author:Quincy Jones

“I more or less think that the trombone was chosen for me. I first selected a violin, which I didn't do too well with, and, ironically, the only thing left was the trombone. My next choice was a saxophone, but they didn't have any; so I think that the Creator had a lot to do with what I did...Because things just happened, you know, and I had no control over it. And I ended up with my instrument that I play now.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Wells Play Choices Next Left Happened Instruments Creator Chosen Over It Violin Selected Saxophone Trombone

Author:Curtis Fuller

“Musicians in my day had nicknames. My name was "Satchel Mouth," like a doctor's satchel. When I went to England this fellow was strictly English, and he was editor of the newspaper there. He shook my hand after I got off the train and said, "Hello, Satchmo." So right away my trombone player said, "Mmm, the man thinks you have mo' mouth than Satchel Mouth." So I was stuck with it, and it turned out all right.”

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Author:Louis Armstrong

“I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis [Armstrong] was singing a tune and it was just Satchmo and you could hear it resounding through the dance hall and people were dancing. It was a highlight.”

People Firsts Bigs Remember Young Singing Dancing Tunes Halls Remember When Highlights Armstrong Trombone

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“My Dad played the trombone and I think my Mom played the piano for about two years. It is very self-driven. They pushed me to do piano lessons, but they were never forceful about anything. They never pushed me to sing or anything, it was something that I did myself.”

Thinking Years Two Self Mom Dad Lessons My Dad My Mom Driven Piano Two Years Piano Lesson Trombone

Author:Thomston

“One interesting thing - I play bass and guitar and stuff like that. I know those instruments really well. But I don't know how to play clarinet or trombone or any of these other instruments. I don't actually know how to play ukulele even though I've played it a lot in the past. Because of the weird tuning it's not exactly like a guitar. That's one of the reasons I like that instrument - it makes for surprises. It's not so predictable as the bass or the guitar is for me.”

Reason Past Interesting Surprise Predictable Clarinet Trombone

Author:Jherek Bischoff

“The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.”

Life Inspirational Matter Play Tree Plant Chess Ice Treatment Cream Grandchildren Ice Cream Slides Good God Plant A Tree Cones Trombone Ice Cream Cones

Author:Ray Manzarek

“Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.”

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Author:Richard Wagner

“Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited!”

Devil Angel Uncles Invited Trumpets Clockwork Trombone

Book:A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and the reed instruments had the good taste to admire my jacket. The Trumpets held a parade in honor of our great nation, while the French Horns waxed nostalgic about something or other. The Trombones had too much to drink. The Percussion beat the band, and the Tuba stayed home playing cards with his landlady, the Harp, taking sips of warm milk a blue little cup. “But the Composer is still dead.”

“The jazz trombone is a magical experience particularly to hear and listen too.”

Magic Jazz Trombone

Author:John Jensen

“Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything.”

Player Changed Bird Instruments Piano Memorable Bass Trumpets Saxophone Brass Armstrong Trombone

Author:Cootie Williams

“There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.”

Said Stills Beautiful Music Majors Musical Beautiful Things Trombone

Author:Sergei Prokofiev

“Never look at the trombones, you'll just encourage them.”

Looks Performing Trombone

Author:Richard Strauss

“You blow in this end of the trombone and sound comes out the other end and disrupts the cosmos.”

Ends Sound Blow Cosmos Trombone

Author:Roswell Rudd

“The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists.”

Way Ideas Voice Music Violin Trombone Instrumentalists

Author:Frank Sinatra

“Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.”

Able Singing Singers Microphones Trombone

Author:Compay Segundo

“Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then.”

Ifs Mind Book Play Musical Loud Tunes Now And Then Bullets Trombone

Author:Philip Sheridan

“My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.”

Way Teacher Jazz Coaches Singers Vocal Trombone

Author:Frank Sinatra

“When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.”

Play Trombone

Author:Ray Conniff

“You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.”

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Author:Toots Thielemans

“The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.”

Use Sacred Trombone

Author:Felix Mendelssohn

“The trombone is not meant for romance... any instrument that hawks up it's own loogie every ten minutes is not meant for wooin' the ladies.”

Romance Minutes Ten Instruments Hawks Trombone

Author:David Crowe

“Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.”

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Author:Terry Eagleton

“A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.”

Spirit Trombone

Author:Chris Barber

“I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.”

Play Kids Used Trombone

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.”