quotes about Trumpets
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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
-- Al StewartSource : Song: Genie On A Table Top, Album: Famous Last Words, 1993
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A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
-- Alec GuinnessSource : Alec Guinness (1996). “Blessings in disguise”
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.
-- Boris Vian -
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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 -
The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.
-- Charles Lamb -
Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?
-- Constance Fenimore WoolsonSource : Constance Fenimore Woolson (1960). “Anne: A Novel”, p.170, Library of Alexandria
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I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.
-- Dick Dale -
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When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.
-- Frankie AvalonSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.
-- Gerry Mulligan -
The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
-- Herb Alpert -
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
-- Jackson Browne -
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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 -
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 -
Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument,
-- Pat Metheny -
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Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.
-- William Cowper -
There is language going on out there- the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning derived over eons of expression... We have yet to become fluent in the language -and music- of the wild.
-- Boyd Norton -
Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing
-- Nathan Meyer Rothschild -
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The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.
-- Tom Harrell