Blue Quote by Miles Davis

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

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth…

— Jackson Browne

I played trumpet in school at an early age.

— Michael Anthony

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

— KiKi Layne

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

— Drew Carey

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

I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for…

— GRiZ

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

— Jo Stafford

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

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 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

[Larry Laurenzano] gave me a junior high school saxophone to take to high school, because I was always taking one of our school horns…

— Jon Gordon