Instrument Quote by Herb Alpert

Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.

— Ali Akbar Khan

The most important thing is to make a percussive instrument a singing instrument. Teachers should stress this aspect in their instruction, but it seems…

— Vladimir Horowitz

The trumpet is a very violent instrument - probably one of the most archaic of all the modern instruments. It's physically really demanding: you…

— Christian Scott

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in…

— Quincy Jones

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.

— Pat Metheny

I just always wanted to play guitar. I though that was, like, really dope. And then in high school, I learned how to play…

— Cuco

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

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…

— Wynton Marsalis

I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet.

— Johnny Flynn

“She could not be said to dislike Colonel Trumpet so much as not to notice he was there.”

— Stella Gibbons

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

— Eddie Condon

By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.

— Daniel Hanley