“A society where you’re not allowed to blow your own trumpet is so much more nuanced, sophisticated and interesting than the grim… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans.… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Now I am a tin whistle Through which God blows, And I wish to God I were a trumpet --But why, God… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I played the coronet first, and then I upgraded to the trumpet. First song I learned on there was 'Hot Cross Buns.' — Lil Uzi Vert Copy Share Image
I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
I hate the natural sound of the trumpet, but I think I'm naturally set up to be a trumpet player. I know… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
When they really love you in New Orleans, they have their own unique ways of saying so. If a great trumpet player… — Sean Payton Copy Share Image
What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew… — Ian Axel Copy Share Image
For me to want to play the trumpet was a very, very odd thing for my clan as a whole. One of… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
There was a time, in my early 20s, when I picked up the trumpet and said, 'I've got to change what I'm… — Paul Smoker Copy Share Image
The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
Even if my film does well, you will not see me blowing my own trumpet. There is no time to sit and… — Sonakshi Sinha Copy Share Image
I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where… — Doc Severinsen Copy Share Image
The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I have a singer, she's called Lara Caprotti. And then I have Stefano Serafini playing trumpet. The trumpet sounds amazing live in… — Christian Vieri Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I wanted to be a musician. I used to play the trumpet. I practiced all the time,… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note,… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I got to be about 13 and everyone started playing guitars and being in rock bands. There was no place for me… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the… — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was… — Jeffrey Osborne Copy Share Image
Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I first heard Miles Davis as a student, when I was struck by his extraordinary musicianship, and his work did affect some… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was… — R. Carlos Nakai Copy Share Image
My main horn is a hybrid of a flugelhorn a coronet and a trumpet, but that's really because, for me, each instrument… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
Virtually every time the U.S. fires a missile from a drone and ends the lives of Muslims, American media outlets dutifully trumpet… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something… — The Edge Copy Share Image
The bass is just the crayon that I picked out of the box. I'd probably be writing similar stuff if I played… — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
Other friends have said, "I don't understand why you've used this trumpet-style sound rather than a real one when you know you… — Anna Meredith Copy Share Image
I just always wanted to play guitar. I though that was, like, really dope. And then in high school, I learned how… — Cuco Copy Share Image
I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the… — Jon Tester Copy Share Image
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