Freddie Hubbard Quotes
Sad Quotes by Freddie Hubbard

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

I quit drinking, so I can think clear.
When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.
- Freddie Hubbard

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

I am in discussions with a label.
We are talking about doing something.
- Freddie Hubbard

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

I advise all the young kids to not overwork.
You can't be out there blowing hard.
You have to pace yourself.
- Freddie Hubbard

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.
- Freddie Hubbard

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

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

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

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

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

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon

I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel

If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure;
Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
- John Lennon

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca

You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra

If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa

None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall

If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa

You're just left with yourself all the time,
whatever you do anyway.
You've got to get down to your
own God in your own temple.
It's all down to you, mate.
- John Lennon

Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov

There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein

Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans

Every time you hear a bell ring,
it means that some angel's just got his wings.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant.
You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard
or just think it's going to get on by itself.
You've got to keep watering it.
You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
- John Lennon

Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw

I got a perfect build for clothes.
I'm a twenty-eight dwarf.
- the movie Love and Death

What we've got here is failure to communicate.
- the movie Cool Hand Luke

I wasn't always black...
there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
- Bill Cosby

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs
and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)

Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek

Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I got a good mind to join a club
and beat you over the head with it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup

I'm not a real movie star.
I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
- Will Rogers

I haven't got any special religion this morning.
My God is the God of Walkers.
If you walk hard enough,
you probably don't need any other god.
- Bruce Chatwin

If you've got a talent, protect it.
- Jim Carrey

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
- Fran Drescher

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has,
we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
- Bill Gates

You have got to discover you, what you do,
and trust it.
- Barbra Streisand

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
- Pete Rose

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got
a little money along with it.
- Rose Kennedy

I got the bill for my surgery.
Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
- James H. Boren

I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work,
and I didn't stop until she got home.
- George Stephen

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb.
After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to
find out how much he'd learned in three years.
- Frank Butler

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one.
So I got a cake.
- Mitch Hedberg

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
- Bill Gates

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go
around talking about saving plants and animals only;
we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.
- Jim Fowler

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck,
but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
- Steven Wright

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline
when you're a winner, when you're number one.
What you've got to have is faith and discipline
when you're not yet a winner.
- Vince Lombardi

If you got the game, you got the game.
That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
- Shaquille O'Neal

I've got a new invention.
It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.
- Lefty Gomez

If future generations are to remember us
more with gratitude than sorrow,
we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology.
We must also leave them a glimpse of the world
as it was created, not just as it looked
when we got through with it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

I've got all the money I'll ever need,
if I die by four o'clock.
- Henny Youngman

I got interested in computers and how they could be
enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
- Eugene Jarvis

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.
- Carol Vorderman

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
- Langston Hughes

If you want to read about love and marriage,
you've got to buy two separate books.
- Alan King

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money.
Money is not enough, money can be got,
but they need your hearts to love them.
So, spread your love everywhere you go.
- Mother Teresa

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
- Olin Miller

Most people never run far enough on their first wind
to find out they've got a second.
- William James

You've got to grow up sometime.
- Winona Ryder

I've got to go.
That's one of the penalties of being a doctor.
I never seem to finish a conversation.
- Robert M. Fresco