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180 Trumpets quotes by 150 unique authors

You will not be asked about your culture in your grave. And you will not be judged based on your Father's last name. When the… — Boonaa Mohammed
A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right up… — Freddie Hubbard
I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like… — Keith Jarrett
As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing second… — Louis Armstrong
I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. — Mike Figgis
My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He… — Pat Metheny
I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy. — Jo Stafford
I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose. — Rahsaan Roland Kirk
It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes. — Charlie Munger
The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my… — Anthony Burgess
We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play it third. The… — Eugene Ormandy
As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth. — Lionel Ferbos
The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility. — Charles Lamb
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears! — Dante Alighieri
There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards… — Umberto Eco
Until mankind heeds the message on the Hebrew trumpet blown, and the faith of the whole world's people is the faith that is our own. — Israel Zangwill
I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and… — Wendell Pierce
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And… — Joyce Cary
So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip… — Jackson Browne
Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly. — Frankie Avalon
Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody… — Freddie Hubbard
We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before. — Robert James Graves

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