Top 336 Trumpet Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
As a trumpet player, I was playing Xenakis, Lindberg: very challenging, technical, atonal, and I enjoyed it.
My father was incredible on trumpet and played with the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie.
I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.
Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.
The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.
When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
When I fart my ass makes a trumpet sound that heralds the arrival of the smell.
I tried to play some trumpet and stuff, so I had to figure that out. I record everything in my house.
I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.
He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.
The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.
In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.
The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.
Watching a Kirk Douglas movie, 'Young Man With A Horn,' made me want to be a trumpet player.
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing.
I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.
As you know, I played a little trumpet with Elvis. I overdub a few drum licks here and there on a session, but I'm not a drummer by any means.
A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.
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.
If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
I found Leonora Carrington's 'The Hearing Trumpet' really funny.
My parents pushed me toward trombone because they didn't need another trumpet player.
That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.
I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.
The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.
Not wishing to blow my own trumpet, I'm as near to being the perfect dog owner as it is possible to be.
I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis.
Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.
The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.
I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.
There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace.
Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
Mike Vax plays trumpet the way you have to play in order to hold down the lead chair with Stan Kenton.
Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me.It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'.
I've never blown my own trumpet over my ability but it took an awful lot to stop me getting on the pitch.
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self- importance.
The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.
...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.
I don't shout from the rooftops or blow my own trumpet. But I take a lot of satisfaction from the players and staff at clubs who recognise what I've done.
I started off with the flute and French horn, and then I was playing trumpet in the jazz band.
I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.
I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.
Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.
I fell in love with playing the trumpet because of what we call 'hot jazz' of the 1920s and 1930s, music that has a higher energy to it.
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the greatest pieces of modern art created by anyone. I'm not blowing my own trumpet here.
