Christopher Guest Quotes

My parents pushed me toward trombone because they didn't need another trumpet player.

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

I played the flute in elementary school, but when I got into high school, they didn't have any flutes; they gave me a clarinet and said, 'Play it in the same way, just hold in a different position.' I really didn't care much for it.

I've always been a music fan. I played trumpet. When I was in 4th grade, we were getting demos from the music teacher about different instruments we could play, and I said I wanted to play the trumpet right away. It was easy: it just had three valves.

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.

I don't play the tuba.

The trumpet is forceful.

I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

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

My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.

I do a mean mouth trumpet.

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

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.

At 12 or 13, I picked up a guitar because my mother made me learn how to play.

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.

I played saxophone for a while when I was a kid.

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

I started piano like my sisters. After one year or two, I didn't like it anymore. Then, because I like trumpet, I played the cornet. When you are 7, you can't play trumpet - you play cornet. And something didn't go well. The teacher was too hard. Too rough. Suddenly, there was this instrument, the flute, that I could immediately play.

My mother has learnt classical singing from renowned artiste Druba Ghosh at Sangeet Mahabharati, a music school. During my vacations, my father would sent me to this same school.

My mother, who is a Carnatic musician, started a school for children when I was around three, and I grew up listening to her teaching students.

A lot of my friends in my student days complained about how their parents made them play an instrument when they were kids. I always felt compassion for them and didn't believe a parent could be so cruel, but when I check today, those complaining friends grew up to be quite successful, and many of them are now making their children play.