Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Al Hirt

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Al Hirt.
Last updated on December 6, 2024.
Al Hirt

Alois Maxwell "Al" Hirt was an American trumpeter and bandleader. He is best remembered for his million-selling recordings of "Java" and the accompanying album Honey in the Horn (1963), and for the theme music to The Green Hornet. His nicknames included "Jumbo" and "The Round Mound of Sound". Colin Escott, an author of musician biographies, wrote that RCA Victor, for which Hirt had recorded most of his best-selling recordings and for which he had spent most of his professional recording career, had dubbed him with another moniker: "The King." Hirt was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in November 2009. He received 21 Grammy nominations during his lifetime, including winning the Grammy award in 1964 for his version of "Java".

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.
A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.
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
When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die before he did.
Rich could play way better than Krupa.
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
I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.
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