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157 Trumpet quotes by 129 unique authors

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. — Norman Mailer
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 didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never… — Wynton Marsalis
The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say… — Wynton Marsalis
I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time. — Wynton Marsalis
The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible. — Wynton Marsalis
I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco… — Wynton Marsalis
You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the… — Gerry Mulligan
I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I… — Susan Orlean
The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've… — Bruce Springsteen
I would love to study guitar or trumpet. — Amy Winehouse
I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano. — Norman Wisdom
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it! — Nick Cave
In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet. — Soren Kierkegaard
He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. — William Shakespeare
…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living… — John Dryden
The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck. — Charles Dickens
I'd address his way of trying to discourage Ian later. After all, he could have come up with something other than saying I was a… — Jeaniene Frost
Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet;… — J.R.R. Tolkien
That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet. — Jeanette Winterson
...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought:… — Arthur Rimbaud
It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the… — Amy Carmichael
...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples. — Vladimir Nabokov

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