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A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing. -- Chris Barber
When I started out, all I did was play my trombone. -- Ray Conniff
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. -- Ray Manzarek
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! -- Michael Brecker
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. -- Toots Thielemans
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. -- Compay Segundo
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. -- Terry Eagleton
The trombone is too sacred for frequent use. -- Felix Mendelssohn
Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them. -- Richard Wagner
Never look at the trombones, you'll just encourage them. -- Richard Strauss
The jazz trombone is a magical experience particularly to hear and listen too. -- John Jensen
I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of 'Daydream' in a lot of elevators. -- John Sebastian
Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited! -- Anthony Burgess
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. -- Dave Grohl
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. -- Frank Sinatra
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! -- Quincy Jones
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. -- Sylvester Stallone
The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst. -- Hector Berlioz
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. -- Frank Sinatra
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. -- Quincy Jones
When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band. -- Trombone Shorty
I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone. -- Dolph Lundgren
I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less. -- Colm Meaney
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. -- Quincy Jones
I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine who played trombone and a guy who played tuba, every Christmas we'd go out for three or four days beforehand and play Christmas carols on our horns. -- John Tesh
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. -- Jason McCoy
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. -- David Crowe
Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone. -- Nataly Kelly
Todays the day gonna grab my trombone and blow Thunder on the Mountain -- Bob Dylan
You blow in this end of the trombone and sound comes out the other end and disrupts the cosmos. -- Roswell Rudd
Love sounds like a trumpet mimicking a trombone. That's one of my hobbies, when I'm not impersonating statues of mimes. -- Jarod Kintz
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. -- Philip Sheridan

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