Trumpet Quotes

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

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

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

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

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

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.

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.

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

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.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

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.

Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.

Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.

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

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!

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

I'm a terrible trumpet player.

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

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

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

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.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality.