Steve Carell Quotes

I am a trombone player, and that was my first instrument.

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife. You know what I mean?

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

I don't play the tuba.

The trumpet is forceful.

I'm a terrible trumpet player.

I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

I got a brand new flugelhorn today in this gorgeous case, it's beautiful.

I do a mean mouth trumpet.

How could I? I only know two tunes. One of them is Yankee Doodle. The other isn't.

Most people don't even know what a trombone is. It's not that popular as a front instrument... I picked it up and fell in love with it as a kid. It's a difficult instrument, but I like doing things that seem impossible.

I write, and I sing, and I play a little guitar. I mean, it's tiny. Ba-dump-bum!

Oh, my God, I would be the most uncool band member, ever.

In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility and grandeur to the highest degree; it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst. Directed by the will of the master, the trombones can chant like a choir of priests, threaten, utter gloomy sighs, a mournful lament, or a bright hymn of glory; they can break forth into awe-inspiring cries and awaken the dead or doom the living with their fearful voices.

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player." That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player." How can you tell?" It's PIPING hot!" Then blow on it first!

Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.

If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!

Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.

Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

Sing!" Grandpa Smedry yelled, his voice echoing down a hallway to the right."Sing!" If he breaks into song I think I might have to strangle myself... I thought, cringing.

On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called U2. They seemed like nice fellows and they sounded pretty good, but we didn’t keep in touch. They’re probably taxi drivers and accountants by now.

I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin.