Facility Quote by Gerry Mulligan

The trumpet is forceful.

— Lester Bowie

If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!

— Nick Cave

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

— Bradley Wright-Phillips

The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

— Charles Lamb

The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility

— Charles Lamb

I don't want to blow my own trumpet but the aim of the game is to hit and not get hit and that is…

— Anthony Yarde

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and…

— Humphrey Lyttelton

Not wishing to blow my own trumpet, I'm as near to being the perfect dog owner as it is possible to be.

— Mark Barrowcliffe

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

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

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

The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.

— John Dryden