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Tuba Quotes

12 quotes from 12 authors

Tucked into a modest collection, these twelve snippets give a quick sense of why the tuba commands attention, from its bold brass to the subtle role it plays in ensembles. It’s a tidy starting point for anyone curious about the low‑pitched giant.

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I never killed anyone with my tuba.

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“They'd been played. By a tuba !”

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I don't play the tuba.

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I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.

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Tuba lilladhi hadah (Successful is he whom He guides)

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You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the…

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The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

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Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a…

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“I was still carrying the tuba, for no reason other than that, in my current circumstances, it passed for good company. That's…

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I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I…

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After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the…

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I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a…

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