Quotes/ Ideas/ Concepts

[TinyTubist97]

What are some things about music, tuba, the physics behind something, etc.. that you have heard and changed a big part of how you look at things?

[Mark]

Don't quit your day job.

[Chuck Jackson]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[jon112780]

-Be a self-cleaning oven; recognize and fix your mistakes.

-Change is inevitable, growth is an option.

-You perform how you practice.

-The more passionate you are, the less objective you become.

-Are the technical demands of the piece getting in the way of making music?

-You need to adjust yourself to the music, not the other way around.

-You should be trying to create music, not perfection.

[ken k]

play the music not the instrument....

[SousaSaver]

Honestly this;

Don't Panic - Douglas Adams

[Roger Lewis]

"If you always sound good in the practice room, you are not practicing, you are rehearsing. When practicing (learning something new that you have struggled with) you should find the most private place you can and sound as bad as necessary, until you master what you are working on."

Harvey Phillips

[imperialbari]

What most radically changed my tuba playing?

That I got one to play. Actually a sousaphone, Conn 26K.

Klaus

[tbn.al]

Don't quit your day job.

Verse 2 - "Music, like sex, is too important to be left to the professionals", Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony & Chorus.

[GC]

"Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal." --- R.A.H.

[Ed Jones]

"The more valves at tuba has, the more valves it needs"

[windshieldbug]

If you ever hit a clam, turn to the bass trombone and looked shocked.
Then, like the rest of the trombone section, bite your tongue and try not to laugh out loud when the Music Director yells at him/her.

[David Zerkel]

From Duke Ellington:

"If it sounds good, it is good."

[Michael Bush]

This looks like a good place for this:

From David Zerkel:
"Blow until you stop."

[TubaRay]

From my old friend (who passed a few years ago) who worked Vaudeville in his younger days:

"Son, if you go out there and lay an egg, stand back and admire it."

There's some good advice in that quote.

[gary]

"Your mind should be on fire, but your body should be cold as ice" {quiet/still} - Dave Kirk.