Trumpet Quotes · Page 3

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

— Boris Vian

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

— Drew Carey

I started off with the flute and French horn, and then I was playing trumpet in the jazz band.

— KiKi Layne

“The voice of the archangel is the trumpet call of God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

— Herb Alpert

I found Leonora Carrington's 'The Hearing Trumpet' really funny.

— Olga Tokarczuk

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

— Charles Dickens

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

— William Christopher Handy

The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility

— Charles Lamb

“I play the only instrument that takes in music rather than propelling it out: the ear trumpet. Don’t bother snickering at me—I…

— Jarod Kintz

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by…

— Dick Dale

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.

— Don Ellis

“If death blew a trumpet each time he was coming, there would be no one to greet him on arrival.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

When I was a kid I wanted to be a musician. I used to play the trumpet. I practiced all the time,…

— Zach Woods

The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too…

— Wynton Marsalis

The history of the past is a mere puppet-show. A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Humphrey Lyttelton

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

— Stephen Costello

“Shams is a trumpet note of light that starts the atoms spinning, a wind that comes at dawn tasting of bread and…

— Rumi

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

— Dizzy Gillespie

I've always been a music fan. I played trumpet. When I was in 4th grade, we were getting demos from the music…

— Kurt Vile

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

— Jon Tester

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

— Cuco

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

— Mike Figgis

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

I played trumpet for Noah and the Whale a couple of times.

— Johnny Flynn

As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth.

— Lionel Ferbos

My parents pushed me toward trombone because they didn't need another trumpet player.

— Trombone Shorty

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

— Aneurin Bevan

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

— Johnny Flynn

I always felt like the trumpet or trombone player was always the coolest dude in the room.

— Mannie Fresh

Watching a Kirk Douglas movie, 'Young Man With A Horn,' made me want to be a trumpet player.

— Hugh Masekela

“The last blowing of the trumpet will the last miracle to mankind”

— Aliyu mustaph

“If someone can't hear a trumpet melody, sprinkle dirt on his head and declare him dead.”

— Rumi

Even if my film does well, you will not see me blowing my own trumpet. There is no time to sit and…

— Sonakshi Sinha

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

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

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