Quotes by Freddie Hubbard - Page 1

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Music
Jazz
Want
Sell
Me Always Hard
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I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Discussions
Label
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When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Music
New York
Different
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Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Music
Dizzy
Giving
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I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Kids
Advise
Overwork
Pace
Young
Blowing
Young Kids
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I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Drinking
Healing
Healing Process
Thinking
Chop
Quit
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Dizzy used to tell me that I am playing too hard. He used to say to not give everything. Miles used to tell me that too.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Dizzy
Miles
Me I Am Everything
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When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Records
Trying
Want
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I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Fred
Opened
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I'm going to Yoshi's. I'm taking a few gigs. I'm playing. I'm not going to play all the time. I'm going to take it easy and take it slow and warm up so I can come back.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Gigs
Warm
Slow
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When I got started in New York, it wasn't like it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to make gigs and make money with your own style.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Dizzy
Gigs
Miles
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A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right up there too. He is unique, in every sense of the term.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Musician
Sweet
Unique
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That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they would show me a lot of stuff, which was really advanced stuff to me at my age.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Practice
Thrill
Advanced
Biggest Thrill
Houses
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We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Art
Great Guy
Guy
Writing
Art Good Great
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I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey man, why don't you play some of your own stuff.' So, I finally did, because I had copied all his solos.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Music
Men
Night
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Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music. But jazz is like classical music. If people like you, they'll remember you and you'll last forever.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Music
Remember You
Remembers You
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[Lee Morgan] was the only young cat that scared me when he played. He had so much fire and natural feeling. I had more technique, but he had that feeling. People seemed to like him more than they like me at the beginning.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Music
Cat
Fire
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Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Sister
Brother
House
Piano
Blowing
Trumpet
Fred
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Don't make the mistakes I made of not taking care of myself. Please, keeps your chops cool and don't overblow. If you are going to play hard, be sure to warm up. I'd get carried away trying to stay right with the momentum [of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers]. I used to try and play like Coltrane and solo for 30 or 40 choruses. It all caught up with me.
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Art
Music
Mistake
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Man, you'd be surprised how much I'm learning - not only about myself, but about the musicians who came before me. You don't realize at first when you listen to Armstrong's records how great this man was and how hard that Hot Five music was to play. After the experience of reading and playing those parts, I have an even greater respect for Louis Armstrong than before
Freddie Hubbard / Trumpeter
Men
Play
Reading
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