Trumpets Quotes

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing

The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets.

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

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

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.

You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.

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?

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

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

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.

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

I'm a terrible trumpet player...

My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.

I spent my entire life working with the smallest budget I could get. Just working with old, junky, donated equipment. The only things I bought myself were the trumpet and the $9 ukulele.