Trumpet Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

The trumpet is forceful.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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