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A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
I'm a terrible trumpet player.
After using your stuff on a jug band full of instruments, all I can say is Thank You Dr. Duck ! ...
I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.
The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.
The horn . . . is the joint hardest instrument to learn. . . . (The other is the oboe).
Followed like a goat on a halter, hungry dog closing on his just-filled dinner bowl, water-bottle and towel carrier behind the tuba section of a marching band.
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
The jazz trombone is a magical experience particularly to hear and listen too.
My voice is an instrument.
The harmonica is a great instrument.
Voice is my instrument.
When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.
My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.
In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli. Made a musical notation of their snores. Elgar is to be played by a bass tuba, Ayrs a bassoon.
There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.
I don't play an instrument. I pretend. I try to.
The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets threewise silverflamed,
The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.
The oboe's a horn made of wood.
I'd play you a tune if I could,
But the reeds are a pain,
And the fingering's insane.
It's the ill wind that no one blows good.
... the violin - that most human of all instruments ...
The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every instrument is precious and adds to the complex beauty of the symphony.
I play a bunch of instruments.
My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.
Never look at the trombones, you'll just encourage them.
I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.
The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.
I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.
After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.
I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.
And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion
My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.
I am a very talented belcher. Very deep and bassy.
Tonight I heard Louis's horn. My father heard it, too. The wind was right, and I could hear the notes of taps, just as darkness fell. There is nothing in all the world I like better than the trumpet of the swan.
What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!
I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.
Drumming is my middle name.
We need to play each others instruments.
My first instrument was a little blue ukele.
My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments.
The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer!
Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!
It does seem about the time to learn a musical instrument. He flourished his new prize, a little stringed instrument that looked like a cousin of the lute that the lute was embarrassed to be related to.
One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.
I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.
I don't need a trumpet for you to know I'm coming. I simply arrive.
I play no instruments.
I use my voice as an instrument.
I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.
My main horn is a hybrid of a flugelhorn a coronet and a trumpet, but that's really because, for me, each instrument to me had a different voice, and I liked them all, but I didn't like any one of them singularly.
Scottish bagpipe has two tenors and one bass - three drone pipes - and then the one chanter. If you put bagpipes together, it creates such a fine sound.
The thing with the new world," the tuba had said once, "is it's just horrifically short on elegance.
The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.
I used to play tenor sax in high school, man.
At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.
I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.
An oboe is an ill-wind that nobody blows good.
You've got to learn your instrument.
Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.
I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.
Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And so, with a mouth full of braces (and a glorious mullet), I accepted that the trombone would be a fantastic scholastic counterpart to my extracurricular loves: country music, and the guitar.
I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.
I am a saxophone player.
I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums ... I'm working on mastering the accordion.
You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.
Milton, in his hand
The thing became a trumpet
Either he was suffering a terrible case of gas or he had a pint-size child practicing the trumpet in his back pocket.
I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.
Be empty
and weep with the fullness of the reed flute.
Be empty
and discover the mysteries of the reed pen.
I played cello in my high school orchestra.
The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.
I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin.
I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.
Well fiddle dee dee!
Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn,
Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute,
Are half so sweet as tender human words.
You got to think a musical instrument is human or, anyway, alive ... You take a fiddle now, we say it has a neck, and in the human neck what do you find? Vocal cords like strings, where the sound comes from.
Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.
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.
I got 15 trumpets where other women got hips
& a upright bass for both sides of my heart
Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.
I write on all instruments.
The music is in minors.
For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,
And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;
A fluent trumpeter with a bright tone and a forward-looking style ...
A
Round of fiddles playing Bach.
I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.
I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,
cut holes in it, and called it a human being.
Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony
of parting, never mentioning the skill
that gave it life as a flute
Drums were my first instrument.
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time
What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?
With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.
Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do ... The trumpet requires a lot of diligence, and I haven't had the time.
I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot.