As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play…

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

— Eddie Condon

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…

— Jackson Browne

To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and…

— Humphrey Lyttelton

To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player,…

— Umberto Eco

Many critics always saw and heard that my style comes from Roy Eldridge, which is true. But for many things, not only how to…

— Dizzy Gillespie

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

— Frankie Avalon

Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.

— Roy Eldridge

I used to play trumpet when I was a kid, and then I got braces, and I couldn't really play it anymore, so sometimes…

— Eric Hutchinson

I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and…

— Jon Tester

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

— Joshua Ostrander

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

— Jeffrey Osborne

I just always wanted to play guitar. I though that was, like, really dope. And then in high school, I learned how to play…

— Cuco

I auditioned for 'West Side Story' and got the part of Tony, but wasn't allowed to do it. They needed me to play trumpet.…

— Stephen Costello