Famous Quotes About Tubas

[TCtubaKingConn00]

"If I seem wierd it is part of being a tuba player." -Josh Winter

"The tuba section is the most fun section." Bass drum player

"We Win! YEAH GO TUBAS!" me

[benny-plus]

"Happiness is in big things"
- Bert Visscher (a Dutch comedian)

"Tuba or not Tuba"
- Adapted from W. Shakespeare

[duderubble]

Rehearsing for Mahler 2, the conductor gives the hand and says, "No... remember you're only fortissimo there."



DG

This one is my favorite for some reason.

[Dutchtown Sousa]

Not famous but yesterday while trying to teach a saxophone player tuba basics in less than 3 minutes, she was like, "Oh my god this takes so much air. I'm already light headed."
Of course when my band director saw her trying to play the tuba he said that we were "corrupting her"

[aqualung]

I was teaching band camp. One sousaphone player was a blonde surfer queen who had carried a tenor sax the previous season.

In a brass sectional, I said "That was pretty good. Now let's try it with your fingers on the valves."

[MikeW]

Advice from Philip Catelinet at a workshop for brass-band tuba players in 1982 or 1983. I wish I could remember more of what he had to say, but these gems stuck in my mind and stayed with me:

"You're a bass, you breathe when you need to. Ignore the conductor, he doesn't know what he's talking about."

"These big bells that people are using these days do nothing for you and are not worth bothering with."

"If you can't drop a pencil through your mouthpiece, it's no use to you. Stick a 5/16 drill through it for now, and get hold of a decent one as soon as possible."

"To get a start in having your music published, you need a rich wife."

[arminhachmer]

"vater unser, der tubist im himmel"

A GREAT PUN. A multilingual pun. I love it. Has me thinking to try
to makeup another one. Sometime, maybe, ever?