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Trumpets Quotes by Wynton Marsalis
- Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.
- Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
- 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…
More Trumpets Quotes
- 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… — 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… — Walt Kelly
- By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that. — Unknown Author
- In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet,… — 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… — Meredith Willson
- O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted… — Benjamin Disraeli
- The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument. — Herb Alpert
- The trumpet is forceful. — Lester Bowie