Armstrong Quote by Jackson Browne

My parents pushed me toward trombone because they didn't need another trumpet player.

— Trombone Shorty

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

— Jeffrey Osborne

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

— Drew Carey

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…

— Wynton Marsalis

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. One…

— Zach Condon

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.

— Skylar Grey

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

— Brendon Urie

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

— Bill Kreutzmann

You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that…

— Miles Davis

I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

— Flea

I started off with the flute and French horn, and then I was playing trumpet in the jazz band.

— KiKi Layne