Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Tom Harrell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Tom Harrell.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Tom Harrell

Tom Harrell is an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, and arranger. Voted Trumpeter of the Year of 2018 by Jazz Journalists Association, Harrell has won awards and grants throughout his career, including multiple Trumpeter of the Year awards from Down Beat magazine, SESAC Jazz Award, BMI Composers Award, and Prix Oscar du Jazz. He received a Grammy Award nomination for his big band album, Time's Mirror.

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.
Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.
The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound. — © Tom Harrell
The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.
I try to listen attentively to musical sounds around me. You can think of the sounds of daily life as being musical. So I try to absorb the intricacies of the sounds as I would if I were listening to a piece of music. I try to see the beauty in everything.
Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music.
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