Freddie Hubbard Quotes

#1. The most significant bands I played in when I first got to New York were Bobby Watson's band, Roy Hargrove's first band, Benny Golson's band, Benny Green's trio, and probably the most significant out of all of those, for me personally, was playing in Freddie Hubbard's band.

Christian McBride

#2. If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

Pat Metheny

#3. [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

#4. I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something.

Freddie Hubbard

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get
people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep ...

John Muir

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. It's a dream for me to work with Ron MacLean and Don Cherry as well as my old friend Jeff Marek, who I started my career with.

George Stroumboulopoulos

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

Gary Cherone

#15. If God is calling you to adopt, He will accomplish it. If God is leading you to care for the fatherless across the globe in some way other than adoption, He will accomplish it.

Rick Morton

#16. I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

Freddie Hubbard

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

Freddie Hubbard

#20. When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

Freddie Hubbard

#21. Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage.

Douglas Coupland

#22. Yes, I can play. I can play. I can't play as long as I did and as hard, but I don't think I have to.

Freddie Hubbard

#23. It is in Music, perhaps, that the soul most nearly attains the great end for which, when inspired by the Poetic Sentiment, it struggles - the creation of supernal Beauty.

Edgar Allan Poe

#24. I think my heart has broken, but I have offered the fragments to God.

Philippa Gregory

#25. I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

Freddie Hubbard

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#29. We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.

Gary Ackerman

#30. They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

Freddie Hubbard

#31. It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we have.

Sonia Rumzi