Quotes About Performance

When you're playing the part of a saxophone or a trumpet player, both of which I have done, it would be nice to be able to play like John Coltrane, but you can't. Your job is to do something else. And I'm not sure what it is, but I don't think I'd be acting Niels Bohr any better if I went and studied physics for five years.

I always felt like the trumpet or trombone player was always the coolest dude in the room.

Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.

Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I'd like to incorporate that into a character.

I played trumpet in school at an early age.

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.

As you know, I played a little trumpet with Elvis. I overdub a few drum licks here and there on a session, but I'm not a drummer by any means.

I started off with the flute and French horn, and then I was playing trumpet in the jazz band.

I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

I do a mean mouth trumpet.

I'm a trumpet player, and I sing jazz.

When I play the trumpet, I'm in a different character.

As a trumpet player, I was playing Xenakis, Lindberg: very challenging, technical, atonal, and I enjoyed it.

To play the trumpet, you have to use that diaphragm, and it's the same if you want to sing correctly. You really need to push it out from there. And I think that's what has kept me going as a singer.

I have a singer, she's called Lara Caprotti. And then I have Stefano Serafini playing trumpet. The trumpet sounds amazing live in a club.

I've always wanted to do a segment on a talk show. Jay Leno has been such a good friend, and if he would allow me, I'd have to get it all together, but I'd like to go on 'The Tonight Show' and do a set with no props. Or come out with a trunk and never touch it. Or come out with a clear trunk with nothing in it.

There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring. In the tactical area, I think I just have more than most other players.

While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them.