Trumpets Quotes

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

— Kesha

Blow trumpet, for the world is white with May.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.

— John Dryden

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

— Theodore Hesburgh

I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.

— Roy Eldridge

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

— Miles Davis

“Daffodils are yellow trumpets of spring”

— Richard L. Ratliff

With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.

— Albert Einstein

At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.

— John Donne

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

— Charlie Munger

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

— Publilius Syrus

Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Baltasar Gracian

The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.

— Edmund Spenser

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

— Bill Frisell

If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!

— Nick Cave

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in…

— Pat Metheny

Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

— Dante Alighieri

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

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

— Quincy Jones

Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and…

— St. Vincent

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less…

— Robert James Graves

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

Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was,…

— Rosa Luxemburg

Great God, what do I see and hear! The end of things created! The judge of mankind doth appear On clouds of…

— Martin Luther

What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Working in the garden . . . gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There…

— Ruth Stout

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our…

— Amy Carmichael

As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in…

— Louis Armstrong

There was never any question about Scholesy's quality as a footballer. He was known as the little ginger magician in the youth…

— Steve Bruce

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music,…

— Bruce Springsteen

I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I think my first impression (of Bix Beiderbecke) was the lasting one. I remember very clearly thinking, 'Where, what planet, did this…

— Benny Goodman

We must create a history of India in living terms. Up to the present that history, as written by the English, practically…

— Sister Nivedita

Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It…

— Charles Dickens

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by…

— Benjamin Cardozo

I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving…

— Dora Russell

With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets…

— Angela Carter

My job - and it's really true - is that it's constantly evolving and changing. When I was doing the Chet Baker…

— Ethan Hawke

The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful…

— Joseph Sobran