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Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something. -- Wynton Marsalis
After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument. -- Quincy Jones
Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed. -- Wynton Marsalis
I think Donald Trump is a master of moving on from losses when he suffered them, and if he can`t find a way in the short term to get the wall paid for by Mexico, I think he`ll Trumpet the fact that the wall is being built. -- Mark Halperin
I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think. -- Boris Vian
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle. -- Aneurin Bevan
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self- importance. -- Goswami Kriyananda
Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out. -- William Christopher Handy
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. -- Theodore Hesburgh
Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it. -- William Christopher Handy
I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return. -- Isabel Yosito
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people. -- George Galloway
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. -- Norman Mailer
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
Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten. -- Howard Hodgkin
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. -- Jackson Browne
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. -- William Gilbert
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. -- Wynton Marsalis
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! -- Humphrey Lyttelton
I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication. -- Susan Orlean
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. -- Ronnie James Dio
My grade 3 teacher put on a kids' Christmas concert, and I played the kazoo, so my mother bought me a trumpet. I took lessons for eight years, was in the Kitsilano Boys Band, and I played in the Vancouver Junior Symphony for two years. -- Jim Pattison
The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex. -- Gerald Edelman
You can't just pillory the teachers unions and sound the free market trumpet. We must visit the failing schools. We must talk to the mother who desperately wants more for her child and offer a constructive way out. We can't simply lambaste... food stamps or decry dependency. -- Frank Wolf
I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy. -- Wynton Marsalis
Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. My family problems disappeared. I didn't have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, pencilled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool. -- Quincy Jones
I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?' -- Quincy Jones
To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was. -- Umberto Eco
The trumpet is forceful. -- Lester Bowie
I'm a terrible trumpet player. -- Ray Stevens
You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. -- Theodore Hesburgh
My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice. -- Joseph Addison
I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy. -- Kesha
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. -- Al Stewart
The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument. -- Herb Alpert
The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms. -- John Dryden
With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo. -- Albert Einstein
I would love to study guitar or trumpet. -- Amy Winehouse
I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax. -- Roy Eldridge
I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano. -- Norman Wisdom
The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn -- William Shakespeare
Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet -- William Wordsworth
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player. -- Miles Davis
I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw. -- Jimmy Breslin
I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. -- Mike Figgis
Blow trumpet, for the world is white with May. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight. -- Jackson Browne
A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk. -- Alec Guinness
Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Blow ye winds, like the trumpet blows; but without that noise. -- Jack Handey
That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet. -- Jeanette Winterson
I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. -- Bill Frisell
The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded. -- Edmund Spenser
When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly. -- Frankie Avalon
The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck. -- Charles Dickens
If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it! -- Nick Cave
He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him. -- Publilius Syrus
I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet. -- Drew Carey
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame. -- Baltasar Gracian
I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis. -- Christian Scott
Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument, -- Pat Metheny
It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes. -- Charlie Munger
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet. -- Benjamin Cardozo
The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound. -- Tom Harrell
As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth. -- Lionel Ferbos
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self- importance. -- Goswami Kriyananda
Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument. -- Pat Metheny
When I fart my ass makes a trumpet sound that heralds the arrival of the smell. -- Adam Carolla
I can play the trumpet, but only if I have a sufficient quantity of anal lube. -- Jarod Kintz
Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention. -- William Cowper
In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child's hobby-horse and trumpet. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born. -- Nancy Tillman
I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting. -- Gerry Mulligan
The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage. -- Garrison Keillor
He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. -- William Shakespeare
...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples. -- Vladimir Nabokov
The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground. -- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. -- Herb Alpert
I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa. -- John Lydon
I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello. -- Roger Bannister
The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible. -- Wynton Marsalis
I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy. -- Jo Stafford
To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity. -- Mollie Marti
The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility. -- Charles Lamb
By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that. -- Daniel Hanley
I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose. -- Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Love sounds like a trumpet mimicking a trombone. That's one of my hobbies, when I'm not impersonating statues of mimes. -- Jarod Kintz
Mike Vax plays trumpet the way you have to play in order to hold down the lead chair with Stan Kenton. -- Jon Hendricks
I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles. -- Charles Darwin
Not wishing to blow my own trumpet, I'm as near to being the perfect dog owner as it is possible to be. -- Mark Barrowcliffe
The radio is playing jazz, and I listen to the sound of the trumpet playing a solo until I become that sound. -- Joy Harjo
[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could. -- Eddie Condon
The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will. -- Lydia M. Child
There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace. -- Gloria Gaither
I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since. -- Miles Davis
One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement. -- Winston Churchill
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
Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love. -- Ann Petry
I ran a few miles, Davis, and they were musical. Then I made love like the sound of a trumpet, as heard by Helen Keller. -- Jarod Kintz
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. -- Wynton Marsalis
Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing- if it is only yours it won't wake the dead, it will simply disturb the neighbours. -- W. Ian Thomas
Until mankind heeds the message on the Hebrew trumpet blown, and the faith of the whole world's people is the faith that is our own. -- Israel Zangwill
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. -- Robert James Graves
In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after -- Al Hirt
Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here and there. -- Herb Caen
Milk in a mother's breast-that's cool. Milk in a mouth-that's cool too. But milk in my trumpet? Not so cool. I have to play that thing. -- Wynton Marsalis
And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few. -- William Wordsworth
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. -- Wynton Marsalis
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You know, the ukulele itself is not a very loud instrument, all right? And, you know, compared to like a trumpet, right? A trumpet is really loud. -- Jake Shimabukuro
Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet. -- Jeanette Winterson
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. -- Tennessee Ernie Ford
I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field. -- Christopher Moore
I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it. -- Wendell Pierce
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. -- Pat Metheny
Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for. -- Louis Armstrong
Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness. -- Joyce Cary

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