Armstrong Quote by Freddie Hubbard

My father was incredible on trumpet and played with the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie.

— Jeffrey Osborne

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations.…

— Pat Metheny

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

— Marilyn vos Savant

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and…

— Dick Dale

My mother was the only musician. She played piano and she sang. She also played saxophone. And she played at home a lot.

— David Steward

In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long…

— Al Hirt

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…

— Elvis Costello

I played trumpet in school at an early age.

— Michael Anthony

Many critics always saw and heard that my style comes from Roy Eldridge, which is true. But for many things, not only how to…

— Dizzy Gillespie

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

— Herb Alpert

Well, I've heard a lot of people, but I think I would say a Brazilian musician named Hermeto Pascoal was one of my biggest…

— Flora Purim