Freddie Hubbard Quotes

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.

I'm a trumpet player, and I sing jazz.

I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints that they had there, they used black bands. Most musicians who amounted to anything, they would flock to Kansas City because that's the place where jobs were plentiful.

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.

Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

I operate with an emotional fearlessness, and I really feel music; I really feel songs.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.

I love New Orleans. I love jazz. I grew up practicing jazz piano, and that's just been such a cool genre to me. There's a lot of talent there.

I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst jazz musicians are normally better than most musicians, because you have to know so much.

The Court Yard Hounds aren't a threat to the Dixie Chicks.

Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

I've got to include things like "I've Got A Crush On You," and put my stamp on it with the (openly gay) saxophonist Dave Koz.

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

Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.

When I was a kid I wanted to be a musician. I used to play the trumpet. I practiced all the time, but I got braces and I couldn't play it anymore, so I had all of this free time.

In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it.

Music has always been a part of my life. I make music all the time.