Trumpet Quotes - page 4

On Tuesday, the 3rd of Ziqad in AH 700 (10 July, 1301), the strong fort [of Ranthambhor] was conquered. Jhain which was the abode of the infidels, became a new city for Musalmans. The temple of Bahirdev was the first to be destroyed. Subsequently, all other abodes of idolatry were destroyed. Many strong temples which would have remained unshaken even by the trumpet blown on the Day of Judgment, were levelled with the ground when swept by the wind of Islam. (Alauddin Khalji)
A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader. View quote
The Edge
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. View quote
Al Stewart
I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums. View quote
Brendon Urie
I don't just play the trumpet because it's something that resonates with me: I play the trumpet because I realize it's a means to help free a lot of people that ain't free. View quote
Christian Scott
On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead. View quote
Don Ellis
I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?' View quote
Donald Byrd
You can't just pillory the teachers unions and sound the free market trumpet. We must visit the failing schools. We must talk to the mother who desperately wants more for her child and offer a constructive way out. We can't simply lambaste... food stamps or decry dependency. View quote
Frank R. Wolf
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance. View quote
Goswami Kriyananda
We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him. View quote
Ian Axel
The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was easy to get world class artists like Rick Braun to swing by and play a little trumpet, Everette Harp on sax, guitarist Paul Jackson. (Jeffrey Osborne)
I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds - but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn't say, 'My God, that guy can play.' It'd probably sound more like Jack Benny. View quote
Jon Tester
I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy. View quote
Kesha
The trumpet is forceful. View quote
Lester Bowie
As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth. View quote
Lionel Ferbos
As you know, I played a little trumpet with Elvis. I overdub a few drum licks here and there on a session, but I'm not a drummer by any means. View quote
Ray Stevens
I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet. View quote
Skylar Grey
We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano. View quote
Tennessee Ernie Ford
I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it. View quote
Wendell Pierce
When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time. View quote
Zach Woods
I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa. (John Lydon)
The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms Through the land let the sound of it flee Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree. View quote
Thomas Paine
I would love to study guitar or trumpet. View quote
Amy Winehouse
Is that an ear trumpet in your lava-lava? View quote
Kerry Jackson