Trumpet Quotes

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

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 time.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

I'm a terrible trumpet player.

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

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

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality.

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it.

I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.

The trumpet is forceful.

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

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 came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.

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