Trumpet Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.

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.

I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.

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.

The trumpet is forceful.

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.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.

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

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.