Category: Quotes

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity, there is beauty, and there is strength. ––– Maya Angelou The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular…

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ― Marcel Proust I hate the word practice. Practice breeds inurement. Instead of discovering, of distinguishing traits that are deeply hidden or merely veiled, one ends seeing nothing anymore. Once ceases to be aware. ––– Wanda Landowska I like…

Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relationship to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by…

A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden. ––– Robert Sowthey (English Poet of the Romantic School) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats. ― Albert Schweitzer (Alsatian Nobel-prize-winning polymath) There’s a little white cat out here (in California––referring to Chet…

As before, this post has a general quote, a music quote and a trumpet quote. But today, because of his unique position in our world, in the music world and in the trumpet world, they’re all by Paul McCartney! And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make. ―…

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ― Oscar Wilde Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. ––– Charlie Parker It is not a matter of being better than anyone else. How can you love trying to be better than anyone…