1.
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
2.
It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
Charlie Munger
3.
The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.
Charles Lamb
5.
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
Benjamin Cardozo
6.
Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets.
John Neff
7.
A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
Alec Guinness
8.
Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.
William Cowper
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The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.
Simon Blackburn
10.
He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.
Publilius Syrus
11.
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.
Miles Davis
12.
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 Woolson
13.
I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.
Kesha
14.
The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.
John Keats
15.
I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.
Gerry Mulligan
16.
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
17.
I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
Jackson Browne
18.
The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
Herb Alpert
19.
When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.
Frankie Avalon
20.
I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.
Boris Vian
21.
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
Al Stewart
22.
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
25.
I put myself in the studio and I really made sure to say, 'Well, if I would normally reach for a trumpet, why don't I reach for the next nearest instrument instead?'
Zach Condon
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...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.
John Dryden
29.
Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it.
Mahatma Gandhi
31.
I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.
Drew Carey
32.
The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.
Tom Harrell
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Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.
William Shakespeare
35.
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
36.
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.
Zach Condon
37.
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
38.
I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.
Charles Darwin
39.
That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
Jeanette Winterson
40.
Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.
Pat Metheny