Forceful Quote by Lester Bowie

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

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

— Charles Lamb

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

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

— Charles Lamb

FOr if the trumpet give an uncertain sound,who shall prepare himself to the battle

— Pradeepkumardevi

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

— Tom Harrell

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

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

— Bradley Wright-Phillips

Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.

— Paul McCartney

Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.

— Miles Davis

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

— Aneurin Bevan

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

— Wynton Marsalis