Trumpet Quotes

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

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.

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.

The trumpet is forceful.

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.

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.

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.

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