Instrument Quote by Christian Scott

The trumpet is forceful.

— Lester Bowie

I'm not an amazing trumpet player. It's mostly smoke and mirrors. You shake the trumpet and it starts to vibrate in a ridiculous drunken…

— Zach Condon

The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.

— Tom Harrell

There's a quality to the sound of a trumpet that you can really twist for any kind of sound and mood that you want…

— Alexandre Desplat

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could…

— Jackson Browne

Sometimes I feel like you can toot your own trumpet too much. I don't really like that.

— Bradley Wright-Phillips

Other friends have said, "I don't understand why you've used this trumpet-style sound rather than a real one when you know you can write…

— Anna Meredith

Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.

— Wynton Marsalis

To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player,…

— Umberto Eco

I hate the natural sound of the trumpet, but I think I'm naturally set up to be a trumpet player. I know that sounds…

— Christian Scott

I used to play trumpet when I was a kid, and then I got braces, and I couldn't really play it anymore, so sometimes…

— Eric Hutchinson

I've never blown my own trumpet over my ability but it took an awful lot to stop me getting on the pitch.

— Jamie Carragher