I love hearing your trumpet. You always make me feel…

Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.

— Miles Davis

I've always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I'd still be drawing the same pictures...…

— Les Claypool

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

— Petra Haden

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

— Daniel Hanley

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

— Eddie Condon

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

— Stella Gibbons

I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet.

— Johnny Flynn

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

— Wynton Marsalis

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

Practically as soon as the towers hit the ground on Sept. 11, pundits of the left like Noam Chomsky and Susan Sontag took advantage…

— Norah Vincent

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a…

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

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

— William Cowper

My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather…

— Elvis Costello

I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause…

— Quincy Jones

I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice…

— Wendell Pierce