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Alison Balsom Quotes

born 1978

Alison Louise Balsom Lady Mendes, OBE (born 7 October 1978) is a retired English trumpet soloist. She is an arranger, producer, and music educator.

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You have to let music take you over, put ego aside, be a clean conductor – in the electrical sense.

I believe the emergence and explosion of jazz in the last century is one of the pinnacles of human achievement.

When I tell people I’m a trumpet soloist, there are three kinds of response I usually get: “Wow, what a great job!”, “Isn’t that unusual for a woman?” And “That’s jazz, right?”

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alison Balsom (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.