11 quotes about trombone follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!

They had too many classical piano players. I didn't have their chops. I couldn't keep up with them. But they also had a brass scholarship for trombone and they didn't have any trombone players. So I knew I could get that one!

George Duke

They're not carpenters. There's not a lot of need for jazz trombone players in Shreveport, La.

Ben Jaffe

We listen to a lot of NOFX, Reel Big Fish and Andrew W.K. We all have different backgrounds...I actually have a classical music background. So does Geoff (Grice), on trombone.

Aaron Triche

There needs to be a concert like this. We have an extraordinary trombone section (in the Utah Symphony), and NOVA needs to feature sections, as well as individual players.

Corbin Johnston

These kids have the talent and the ability to make their dreams come true. I'm excited they've been given the opportunity to show others how different and unique the trombone can be.

Tim Riordan

They gave you a string instrument - I got a violin. Gave it to me. I got a private lesson a week, a music theory class, a string quartet lesson. Then we all got together for the orchestra. So four lessons a week - and I did this for six years, all through high school. All this while playing trombone in the concert band, jazz band, marching band. And singing in the a cappella chorus and drama club.

John Carlin

The group, composed of a trombone, French horn, tuba and two trumpets, performs pieces from the classics to show tunes to Dixieland to original compositions.

Jane Riley

The Cougars are three-trombone underdogs.

John Blanchette

We have to have a melody line. So if one of our sax players needs to stick with one part, maybe the trombone player will grab the melody from another score.

Tom Freeman

One of his passions in life was his trombone.

Dick Emberley

[But fans need not worry. His next album will have 17 songs and the layers come thick and fast.] The focus of the orchestration next time is brass. In the last year I took up trombone and a couple of other brass instruments, and I have been working on my drumming skills, ... So this time I'm drumming throughout the album. I'm also playing a lot more electric guitar, so it will be bit more rocking.

Eric Matthews