Trumpet Quotes
157 quotes by 129 authors
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I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
— Roger Bannister
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
— Aneurin Bevan
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I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.
— Drew Carey
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The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.
— Unknown Author
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Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
— Baltasar Gracian
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From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is intended to convey…
— Meredith Willson
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O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
— Herb Alpert
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The trumpet is forceful.
— Lester Bowie
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If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own…
— William Gilbert
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A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
— Alec Guinness
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The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is…
— Peter Drucker
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Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and…
— E. Merrill Root
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To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though…
— John F. Kennedy
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From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the…
— Thomas Paine
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Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the…
— Francis Quarles
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Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge,…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.
— Albert Einstein
Who Wrote These Trumpet Quotes
129 authors contributed a total of 157 Trumpet Quotes, led by these top contributors: