Best Trumpets Lines
180 Trumpets quotes by 150 unique authors
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Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
— William Christopher Handy
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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
— Theodore Hesburgh
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I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.
— Kesha
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There…
— Samuel Lover
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I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.
— John Lydon
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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
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Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month…
— Thomas Mann
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
— Wynton Marsalis
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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
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
— Agnes de Mille
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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
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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
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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
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
— Voltaire
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I would love to study guitar or trumpet.
— Amy Winehouse
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I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.
— Norman Wisdom
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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
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With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring…
— Angela Carter
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If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!
— Nick Cave
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Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited!
— Anthony Burgess
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There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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