Hirt Quotes

#1. Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?

Charles Mingus

#2. I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.

Wynton Marsalis

#3. In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.

Pema Chodron

#4. A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.

Al Hirt

#5. Today could be the start of something amazing.

Joel Osteen

#6. When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die before he did.

Al Hirt

#7. I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.

Al Hirt

#8. Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.

Damien Rice

#9. Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out of it to others. We are healthier if we admit to this miswiring and do not struggle to be better than our natures allow.

Dean Koontz

#10. Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

J.D. Salinger

#11. I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

Al Hirt

#12. In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after

Al Hirt

#13. In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

Billy Joel

#14. like as long as you're cleaning up some living thing's poop after age thirty, family members really respect that lifestyle choice.

Jen Kirkman

#15. make you see double and feel single!

Douglas Hirt

#16. My mom was a working woman. She made more money than my dad. Both my parents worked. And this was in the '60s.

Rick Santorum

#17. We're in this period where we're getting good data rates. I would say we're getting data rates that are like the data rates we got when we launched RealAudio in 1995.

Rob Glaser

#18. We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.

Bono

#19. Rich could play way better than Krupa.

Al Hirt

#20. Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Leon Krier