Best Trumpets Words
180 Trumpets quotes by 150 unique authors
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No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.
— Elie Abel
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From heaven's standpoint, all spiritual victories are won not primarily in the pulpit, not primarily in the klieg light of publicity, nor yet through the…
— Paul Billheimer
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The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third…
— John the Apostle
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I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.
— Skylar Grey
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Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love.
— Ann Petry
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One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.
— Winston Churchill
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The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.
— Edmund Spenser
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Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.
— William Cowper
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The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.
— Garrison Keillor
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
— Miles Davis
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Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay…
— George Sewell
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I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So…
— Christopher Moore
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to the…
— Benjamin Cardozo
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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
— Al Stewart
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I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's…
— Quincy Jones
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I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point…
— Humphrey Lyttelton
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Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.
— John Dryden
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Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.
— John Keats
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My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was…
— Elvis Costello
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I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A…
— Debbie Harry
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There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
— George Galloway
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I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of…
— Ronnie James Dio
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To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but…
— Umberto Eco
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