Troy Andrews quotes

Troy Andrews quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.”
-- Troy Andrews

#Dedication Quotes #Fans Quotes #Students Quotes
“As I was a kid, I had a bunch of musicians, they always told me that I should listen to all styles of music and try to play all styles and be authentic at it, if I can, because you never know who's gonna call you. This was coming from fellow horn players who would get the call to play with different types of people. Since I was a kid, that was just something I was always interested in.”
-- Troy Andrews

#Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes #Player Quotes
“As soon as I was born, my mom said I was humming 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' or something like that, you know? It's in the family. And in that neighborhood [Treme, in New Orleans], I think everybody in the neighborhood has some type of musical influence, even if they don't play instruments or anything. It's the way they talk to you, the way they say your name - it's all musical.”
-- Troy Andrews

#Mom Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes
“Those type of people [in New Orleans] keep me happy and just smiling, you know? I just go hang out and talk with them and they tell me all types of old stories, and sometimes I might even pull my horn out in the middle of the block, and they're playing on beer bottles and different things, and we just do a little second line type thing, just us, four or five people, who are just having fun. That makes me day to be able to do that and go hang out with the people in the (Treme) neighborhood, and to do some shows around town, you know?”
-- Troy Andrews

#Fun Quotes #Block Quotes #Beer Quotes
“Bourbon Street is like playing, a tourist, you know? It's just a tourist attraction ... those musicians on Bourbon Street, they play all day. They might start at 12 noon and end at 3 in the morning, like, it's like sets, like a job. You go play, take a break, play again, take a break, then later on that night, the club gets busier, then you play some more. There's pride. They're a group of great musicians- and they're holding it down.”
-- Troy Andrews

#Morning Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Pride Quotes
“I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different parades and, then, I got accepted to go to New Orleans Center for Creative Artists ... it's where Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr. and all those guys went out.”
-- Troy Andrews

#Artist Quotes #New Orleans Quotes #Creative Quotes

“To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]”
“Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.”
“Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.”

Source : Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster
“Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.”
“When a fan comes up to you and says I love your music, thereâ€™s nothing better than that.”
“I enjoy thelove I receive from my fans and my audience. But I think I know what is realfor me and what is not.”
“I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.”
“His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time.”

Source : Aaron Elkins (2014). “Dead Men's Hearts”, p.51, Open Road Media
“If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.”
“If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt (1975). “Art-as-art: the selected writings of Ad Reinhardt”, Viking Adult

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