quotes about Tubas
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You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.
-- Gerry Mulligan -
Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes.
-- Mary Ann Shaffer -
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
-- Peter De Vries -
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I never felt like that in my life. I didn't know human beings played these instruments. I heard them in Chicago and Louisville and St. Louis all my life, you know? But I didn't know human beings played them, you know? So the next day I went to Coontz Junior High School and I started on sousaphone, tuba, B-flat baritone, E-flat alto, French horn, trombone.
-- Quincy Jones -
I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.
-- Rick Danko -
I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose, and I generally say I don't play one so I don't have to acknowledge it. I also play fife.
-- Steve Carell -
As a member of an escorted tour, you don't even have to know the Matterhorn isn't a tuba.
-- Temple Fielding -
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I don't want somebody who writes like me [in my writing staff]. Because I can write like me. I know what I'm capable of and what my limitations are. If you're going to build an orchestra, you don't want all tubas - you want a violin and you want a cello and you want a drum set.
-- Tom FontanaSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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I never killed anyone with my tuba.
-- Bill BarberSource : "Bill Barber" by John Fordham, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2007.
