Trumpet Quotes

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

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

Leadership, Call, Serve

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

Fight, Off, Getting

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

Love, Fact, Once

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

Remember, Problem, Everyone

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.
Kesha

Pretty, Played, Nerdy

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.
Amy Winehouse

Love, Guitar, Study

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

Patriotism, Means, Themselves

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

Seems, Sound, Determined

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

Band, Kid, Played

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

Power, Small, Pride

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

Time, Father, Old

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

Time, Public, Played

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

Thought, Around, Lips

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

Play, Piano, Drums

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

Voice, Silver, Superb

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

Enjoy, Move, Singing

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

Leadership, Vision, Essence

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.
Gerry Mulligan

Down, Start, Top

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

Rock, Enough, Training

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.
Dick Dale

Loved, Sound, Gave

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

Yourself, Saying, Forgotten

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

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.
Jackson Browne

Dad, Together, Thought

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
Jackson Browne

Playing, Started, Eight

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

Face, Playing, Party

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

Same, Wanted, Top

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
Herb Alpert

Singing, Instrument, Lyrical

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

Greatest, Player, Lived

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.
Mike Figgis

Play, Guitar, Piano

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