Trumpet Quotes

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.

Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

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.