Symphonic Band Quotes #1

😳 and 📞?

😳 - Do you live up to your instrument stereotype?

Ngl my entire section does and I lowkey hate it, but I hate myself too much for that I think.

📞 - Made any really good friends through band?

I mean, yall know about the tenor sax next to me (@getofftheroof), and then theres also the bari sax next to them, so yeah!!

No but I put duct tape on mine :)

For those of y’all who have instruments with hard cases, do you put stickers on them?

Marching Quotes #1

"Do you think if I just stood in the road a car would hit me?"

"Why is there a frog on your head"

"We look like a cult."

"We are a cult."

"Could you please take the frog off of your head its distracting everyone."

"Its suns out guns out bois."

"Ooh you looking extra thicc today"

"JOIN THE ARMY"

"I was twirling and your locker was in my way!"

"Wow that sounds like jazz band!"

"Your trumpet is a dad."

"I hate my section almost as much as I hate myself."

"That's not funky fresh. It's the opposite of funky fresh... not funky fresh."

"Let's switch trumpets"

"IS THAT A PHONE?"

"I definitely played all of those notes correctly."

yeah it was pretty good. the valves get stuck more than my other one, but other than that its pretty good quality.

I'd definitely say get a used one for a first one, but be careful which one you get people are sketchy

I’m about to buy a cheap trumpet off of ebay wish me luck

OK new game. Use this website to see how common your first name is, and then put that number in the tags. 

EDIT: This isn’t my website, so I can’t say how accurate it is. It’s just a fun tool to play around with. Sorry if your name doesn’t show up! :[ 

"Trumpet players are just frustrated percussionists."

-Our High Brass director

A Short History of Marching Band Cults.

Why are we like this? Good question! Let's start in the beginning.

By the beginning, I mean middle school, by the way. Middle school - when you start embracing the fact that band is your life now and you cant escape it! All your friends have either left you or joined band because you dont have a life!

Then, high school rolls around. Most of middle school band wants their friends back at this point, so they abandon band and do, idk, cheerleading or smth for popularity!

Then there are the diehard band nerds. These people stay in band through high school. They, near the conclusion of band camp, are admitted into the Marching Band Cult.

A cult is extreme for this, you say? Ah, that's where you're wrong! We regularly worship our Marching Band Gods and pray that we dont face plant. We hold a sacrafice of one trumpet or flute player a year, as their sections are too crowded anyway. We bleed for band, especially when our instruments are wanted for attempted murder, but we love our children. Most of our instruments are named really weirdly. We have led the new ones into this trap.

The ones who esca- leave think that they made a mistake joining in the first place, but how wrong they are. As you join us, the attention whistle sounds, a circle forms in the background, you are home.

Marching Quotes #2

"Its a weed cookie!"

"I am magenta and therefore I dont exist."

"I. AM. A. SHRUB."

"Oh god, they're forming a circle."

"Its crop top season!"

"I ate a small child. I'm not sorry."

"Theres pot brownies by the trumpet tree!"

"Cooking class contraband - you cant bring in premade cookies"

“You haven’t tried either and therefore you are nothing.”

“AAAAHHH MY FAMILY!” -Alumni

“Give us the tinfoil, we’re making a wall.”

"I can see the shit stain on the back of your pants."

"Hippity hoppity, all of your family is now my property."

"CHOO CHOO!"

"Band directors dont eat."

"WHAT ARE YOU AN ANIMAL?!"

"You're actually f**king Jesus!"

Heyyy marching band season for me is going to be over by halloween, so any tips of not having an emotional breakdown because I probably won't see my senior friends in person ever again?

Oh yeah theres lots of sadness involved. If you guys have an alumni night then maybe you'll get to see then again?? And if not I guess hug them and then cry. At least theres still the rest of the year :)

My ex-clarinetist brother has just picked up french horn, and within the span of two days he has broken the string on one on the valves.