Freddie Hubbard Quotes

• 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

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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

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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

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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

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• They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

  Freddie Hubbard

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

  Freddie Hubbard

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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

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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

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Freddie Hubbard (12)

Birth:	7th April, 1938
Death:	29th December, 2008
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Trumpeter

About

Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post-bop styles from the early 1960s onwards. He played on several Blakey recordings, including Caravan, Ugetsu, Mosaic, and Free For All. He won the Downbeat jazz magazine "New Star" award on trumpet. In 2006, the National Endowment for the Arts accorded Hubbard its highest honor in jazz, the NEA Jazz Masters Award.

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