Sousaphone Quotes

“But eventually everything was back the way it had been before, except for Lucy's father's second-best tuba, which had sustained severe jam damage.

So Lucy's father sold his second-best tuba and bought a sousaphone instead, which he had always wanted.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Wolves in the Walls

“The missions were always changing- sometimes collecting jars of rain, paper bags of hiccups, adopting lost moonbeams and folding them into cake batter. Or perhaps investigating glittering slug trails left in the moonlight, finding the owners of abandoned buttons, or playing the sousaphone for caterpillars still in their cocoons.”
― Michelle Cuevas, Beyond the Laughing Sky

“Lying on the ground, the instrument looks like a Venn diagram for toppings that belong on a pizza versus pineapple, two big separate circles. He lifts the whole thing up, minding the ceiling, sticks his head through the pineapple portion, and straightens the pizza portion to be a little flatter to the front.”
― Patrick R.F. Blakley, Drummond: Learning to find himself in the music

“Steve holds his breath as I suck all the air from the room into my lungs. I pause, then blow as hard as I can while squeezing my lips tightly together. The sound that comes out is not that of a sousaphone. In fact, it doesn't even come out of the bell above my head. The sound that escapes and reverberates throughout the long hallway did, in fact, start with F but ended in A-R-T, and it came out the opposite end!”
― Patrick R.F. Blakley, Drummond: Learning to find himself in the music