Trumpet Quotes

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. (Norman Mailer)

Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out.

W. C. Handy

And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet whence he blew Soul-animating strains,alas too few.

William Wordsworth

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

Gerry Mulligan

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.

Gerry Mulligan

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

Mike Figgis

When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.

Oliver Goldsmith

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

George Galloway

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even things without life that give sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction of sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue plain speech, how shall it be known what is said? For you shall be speaking into the air.

Paul

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano. (Norman Wisdom)

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

Bill Frisell

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

Dick Dale

I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.

Doc Severinsen

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

When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.

Frankie Avalon

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

Herb Alpert

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

Herb Alpert

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

Jo Stafford

I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.

Isabel Yosito

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before. (Robert James Graves)

I'm a terrible trumpet player.

Ray Stevens

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

William Gilbert

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

Alec Guinness

Each jazz musician when he takes a horn in his hand - trumpet, bass, saxophone, drums - whatever instrument he plays - each soloist, that is, when he begins to ad lib on a given composition with a title and improvise a new creative melody, this man is taking the place of a composer.

Charles Mingus

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