Trumpet Quotes · Page 2

I'm a terrible trumpet player.

— Ray Stevens

With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.

— Albert Einstein

“Daffodils are yellow trumpets of spring”

— Richard L. Ratliff

The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn

— William Shakespeare

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

— Amy Winehouse

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

— Jimmy Breslin

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

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

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

— Stella Gibbons

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

— Baltasar Gracian

“You don't need to blow the trumpet when you accomplished something because your work, your action will speak itself.”

— Euginia Herlihy

I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't…

— Christopher Moore

As you know, I played a little trumpet with Elvis. I overdub a few drum licks here and there on a session,…

— Ray Stevens

Not wishing to blow my own trumpet, I'm as near to being the perfect dog owner as it is possible to be.

— Mark Barrowcliffe

My father was incredible on trumpet and played with the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie.

— Jeffrey Osborne

Mike Vax plays trumpet the way you have to play in order to hold down the lead chair with Stan Kenton.

— Jon Hendricks

I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.

— Isabel Yosito

I've never blown my own trumpet over my ability but it took an awful lot to stop me getting on the pitch.

— Jamie Carragher

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

When they really love you in New Orleans, they have their own unique ways of saying so. If a great trumpet player…

— Sean Payton

What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet…

— Leonard Bernstein

We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew…

— Ian Axel

For me to want to play the trumpet was a very, very odd thing for my clan as a whole. One of…

— Hugh Masekela

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

— Elvis Costello

For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in,…

— Gary Panter

I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a…

— John Tesh

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

— Publilius Syrus

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

— Benjamin Cardozo

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

— Frankie Avalon

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

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

FOr if the trumpet give an uncertain sound,who shall prepare himself to the battle

— Pradeepkumardevi

I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis.

— Christian Scott

“For till the thunder and trumpet be, Soul may divide from body, but not we One from another”

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

— Al Stewart

Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Gerry Mulligan

Like Louie Armstrong, played the trumpet. I'll hit that bong and break ya off somethin soon.

— Cypress Hill