Top 77 Trumpet Quotes

I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds – but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn’t say, ‘My God, that guy can play.’ It’d probably sound more like Jack Benny.

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.

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.

I don’t just play the trumpet because it’s something that resonates with me: I play the trumpet because I realize it’s a means to help free a lot of people that ain’t free.

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!

I always felt like the trumpet or trombone player was always the coolest dude in the room.

Sports and fashion move so fast that I can’t possibly keep my ear to the ground. For one thing, my ear trumpet gets in the way.

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.

I started off with the flute and French horn, and then I was playing trumpet in the jazz band.

A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that’s true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there’s something about the guitar – the range of possibilities is much broader.

‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ is one of the greatest pieces of modern art created by anyone. I’m not blowing my own trumpet here.

I was trying to become a legitimate trumpet player, and I had a scholarship to Eastman School of Music. I was really on my way. But I didn’t take the scholarship. I got sidetracked, because when summers came around, I started playing with a rock-and-roll band.

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.

I’m a trumpet player, so I always carry a pocket trumpet in case there’s an opportunity to jam with the locals. I was in Guadeloupe last year filming ‘Death in Paradise,’ and I played all over the island and had the best time.

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

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.

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.

My main horn is a hybrid of a flugelhorn a coronet and a trumpet, but that’s really because, for me, each instrument to me had a different voice, and I liked them all, but I didn’t like any one of them singularly.

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

I’ve always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I’d still be drawing the same pictures… should I have picked trumpet or accordion or guitar, whatever it may be. The sounds in my head are still the same.

I hate the natural sound of the trumpet, but I think I’m naturally set up to be a trumpet player. I know that sounds weird. But pretty much anytime I play a note, I’m uncomfortable in a general sense.

I’m a trumpet player, and I sing jazz.

I just always wanted to play guitar. I though that was, like, really dope. And then in high school, I learned how to play trumpet and, like, French horn because if the instrument’s right in front of me, I’m going to just teach myself.

I have a singer, she’s called Lara Caprotti. And then I have Stefano Serafini playing trumpet. The trumpet sounds amazing live in a club.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

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

The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was easy to get world class artists like Rick Braun to swing by and play a little trumpet, Everette Harp on sax, guitarist Paul Jackson.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

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.

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we’ve had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.

Few of us boggle – though we should – at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as composers, conductors and pianists.

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

I have two brothers that are musicians. My older brother, Yuval, is a saxophone player. My younger brother, Avishai, is a trumpet player.

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me – it was actually my first instrument.

My whole thing with parenting, even though this is my first time, I want to just put five or six objects on the floor – a trumpet, a piano, some dancing or a computer or whatever it is, and just see what he picks up.

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

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

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.

I tried to play some trumpet and stuff, so I had to figure that out. I record everything in my house.

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.

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

I can play anything – piano, drums, guitar, harp – I can even play a trumpet through another trumpet.

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.

I found Leonora Carrington’s ‘The Hearing Trumpet’ really funny.

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

I’ve always been a music fan. I played trumpet. When I was in 4th grade, we were getting demos from the music teacher about different instruments we could play, and I said I wanted to play the trumpet right away. It was easy: it just had three valves.

Not in our make-up, to be sure – not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet – do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.

I was taught to whistle as a little girl by an undertaker. I used to sit in his workshop, watching him planing wood for the coffins, and he used to whistle all the time – and eventually I started whistling, too. I can whistle anything, particularly trumpet tunes from Classic FM.

I don’t want to blow my own trumpet but the aim of the game is to hit and not get hit and that is what I am doing.

Not wishing to blow my own trumpet, I’m as near to being the perfect dog owner as it is possible to be.

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 started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.

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.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

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.

Even if my film does well, you will not see me blowing my own trumpet. There is no time to sit and dwell on whether it’s done well or not done well.

There’s a quality to the sound of a trumpet that you can really twist for any kind of sound and mood that you want to create.

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