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What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June? -- Edward Abbey
I don't play the tuba. -- Lenny Kravitz
I've got a lot of respect for tuba players, just carrying that thing around. -- Jim Pattison
I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too. -- Rick Danko
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. -- Peter De Vries
I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad. -- Wynton Marsalis
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
You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet. -- Gerry Mulligan
I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh? -- Patti LuPone
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. -- Phil McGraw
I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose, and I generally say I don't play one so I don't have to acknowledge it. I also play fife. -- Steve Carell
I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs. -- Lou Reed
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
I never killed anyone with my tuba. -- Bill Barber
As a member of an escorted tour, you don't even have to know the Matterhorn isn't a tuba. -- Temple Fielding
Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes. -- Mary Ann Shaffer
Anton brings the camera. I'll bring a tuba, wear black, not shave, and take us to a burned-down Chinese restaurant. (On being photographed by his longtime photo collaborator Anton Corbijn) -- Tom Waits
I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba. -- David Klass

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