Humphrey Lyttelton Quotes

• The day of the dinosaurs is over. The future belongs to the bridge-builders, not the wreckers.

  Humphrey Lyttelton

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• It is this tendency to play with manic enthusiasm on every possible occasion that distinguishes the amateur jazz musician from the professional, often to the public detriment of the latter, who are regarded as snooty and unfriendly.

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• Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called The Best of Jazz and that still goes out on Monday nights. That’s been going for 33 years or something.

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• The secret of it is to read what you’ve got in front of you. Don’t, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don’t pause. Don’t put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don’t sort of do anything other than read it.

  Humphrey Lyttelton

• I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!

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• I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

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• I just stroll in right before the recording goes on.

  Humphrey Lyttelton

• I did the pilot, and when they came through and said they were going to put it on the air, I had already some dates in the book with my band and so on. So Barry did the first one, he may have done a few more than the first one in the series, and I took it up from then.

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• For me, it’s a bigger challenge, it’s much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you’ve got to see to it that you don’t torpedo any of his punch lines.

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• An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

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• It is a very wide range of people that we get for the show.

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Birth:	23rd May, 1921
Death:	25th April, 2008
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Broadcaster, Cartoonist, Composer, Radio Personality, Trumpeter

About

Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton, also known as Humph was born in Eton, Berkshire, England. He was an English jazz musician, composer, broadcaster, cartoonist, and radio personality. Having taught himself the trumpet at school, he became a popular figure of the trad jazz revival, leading his own eight-piece band, which recorded a hit single, "Bad Penny Blues", in 1956. As a broadcaster, he presented BBC Radio 2's The Best of Jazz for forty years, and hosted the comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue on Radio 4, becoming the UK's oldest panel game host. He was also a cartoonist, collaborating on the long-running Flook series in the Daily Mail. His albums list shown below: Triple Exposure, I Play As I Please, 1959, Georgia Mae, In The Evening, Big Band Classics, and I Love Jazz.

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