Trumpets Quotes

180 quotes by 151 authors

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello. — Roger Bannister
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle. — Aneurin Bevan
I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet. — Drew Carey
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
There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand.… — Walt Kelly
By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that. — Daniel Hanley
In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels,… — John Ruskin
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame. — Baltasar Gracian
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
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
The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument. — Herb Alpert
The trumpet is forceful. — Lester Bowie
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
A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk. — Alec Guinness
At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels. — John Donne
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
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
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul… — Toni Morrison
Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones,… — Cootie Williams
To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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