Calm Quote by Wynton Marsalis

I hate the natural sound of the trumpet, but I think I'm naturally set up to be a trumpet player. I know that sounds…

— Christian Scott

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

— Bradley Wright-Phillips

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

— Wynton Marsalis

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 is forceful.

— Lester Bowie

I'm a terrible trumpet player.

— Ray Stevens

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

— Charles Lamb

I'm not an amazing trumpet player. It's mostly smoke and mirrors. You shake the trumpet and it starts to vibrate in a ridiculous drunken…

— Zach Condon

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

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

— Charles Lamb

I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.

— Roy Eldridge

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