Trumpet Quotes · Page 3

God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

— Bible

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.

— Pat Metheny

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

— Charles Dickens

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

— Jimmy Breslin

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

— Jackson Browne

That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

— Jeanette Winterson

“I love hearing your trumpet. You always make me feel renewed.”

— Yuki Kure

When I fart my ass makes a trumpet sound that heralds the arrival of the smell.

— Adam Carolla

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

— Wynton Marsalis

By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.

— Daniel Hanley

The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

— Charles Lamb

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought…

— Jackson Browne

Sports and fashion move so fast that I can't possibly keep my ear to the ground. For one thing, my ear trumpet…

— Steve Rushin

I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.

— Sam Heughan

I don't want to blow my own trumpet but the aim of the game is to hit and not get hit and…

— Anthony Yarde

I tried to play some trumpet and stuff, so I had to figure that out. I record everything in my house.

— Joshua Ostrander

You can't just pillory the teachers unions and sound the free market trumpet. We must visit the failing schools. We must talk…

— Frank Wolf

To play the trumpet, you have to use that diaphragm, and it's the same if you want to sing correctly. You really…

— Jeffrey Osborne

The bass line is the anchor for me. I started with the bass, and either doubled that and then added the harmonies,…

— Petra Haden

I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give…

— Wynton Marsalis

Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel…

— Francis Bacon

A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison]…

— Freddie Hubbard

Having heard Clifford Brown play all those fast runs, I used to really practice Clarke trumpet exercises all day long so that…

— Wynton Marsalis

I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't…

— Paul Smoker

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

— William Cowper

When I play the trumpet, I'm in a different character.

— Trombone Shorty

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

— William Christopher Handy

The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.

— Tom Harrell

He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.

— Publilius Syrus

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

— Baltasar Gracian

“She could not be said to dislike Colonel Trumpet so much as not to notice he was there.”

— Stella Gibbons

I'm a terrible drummer; I almost cannot play the guitar nor sax nor trumpet.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!

— Nick Cave

“Always blow your own trumpet, blowing someone else’s is unhygienic”

— Benny Bellamacina

Sometimes I feel like you can toot your own trumpet too much. I don't really like that.

— Bradley Wright-Phillips

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

— Jo Stafford

“Either he was suffering a terrible case of gas or he had a pint-size child practicing the trumpet in his back pocket.”

— David Sedaris

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

— Howard Hodgkin

You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I…

— Miles Davis

I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in…

— Bebe Rexha