Trumpets Quotes

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said…

— Plutarch

In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.

— Anonymous

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

— Edmund Spenser

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

— Miles Davis

Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard…

— William Shakespeare

Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am absolutely desperate to do an action movie. And not to blow my own trumpet or anything, but I actually think…

— Lily James

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

— William Shakespeare

O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what…

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Rosa Luxemburg

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

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

“January 20th,2021 Blow the trumpets loud, Salute the National Guard in the crowd, New beginnings, A new day has dawned, No need…

— Charmaine J Forde

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

— Wynton Marsalis

[Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with…

— Ray Brown

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

— Simon Blackburn

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

“There is language going on out there- the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning…

— Boyd Norton

Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries,…

— Sydney J. Harris

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

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always…

— Walt Kelly

At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All…

— John Donne

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

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

— Martin Luther