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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

In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child's hobby-horse and trumpet. — Soren Kierkegaard

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

To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up. — Flea

With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo. — Albert Einstein

The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it? (Amos 3:6) — Vincent Cheung

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument. — Herb Alpert

Daffodils are yellow trumpets of spring — Richard L. Ratliff

The butter from Dorothy's' crumpet
Dripped into the bell of her trumpet.
Sweet young Edgar, eating Jell-O,
Dropped a spoonful onto is cello. — Angelica Banks

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

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. — Jake Shimabukuro

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

Milk in a mother's breast-that's cool. Milk in a mouth-that's cool too. But milk in my trumpet? Not so cool. I have to play that thing. — Wynton Marsalis

The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded. — Edmund Spenser

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

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose. — Rahsaan Roland Kirk

By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that. — Daniel Hanley

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

It's easier to whisper your feelings than to trumpet them forth out loud — Anne Frank

Blow trumpet, for the world is white with May. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples. — Vladimir Nabokov

Until mankind heeds the message on the Hebrew trumpet blown, and the faith of the whole world's people is the faith that is our own. — Israel Zangwill

I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax. — Roy Eldridge

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

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. — Sonakshi Sinha

My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice. — Joseph Addison

As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth. — Lionel Ferbos

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Mike Vax plays trumpet the way you have to play in order to hold down the lead chair with Stan Kenton. — Jon Hendricks

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. — Jack Canfield

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could. — Eddie Condon

For till the thunder and trumpet be,
Soul may divide from body, but not we
One from another — Algernon Charles Swinburne

I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis. — Christian Scott

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think. — Boris Vian

Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player. — Miles Davis

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

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

I'm a trumpet player, and I sing jazz. — Colin Salmon

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

The radio is playing jazz, and I listen to the sound of the trumpet playing a solo until I become that sound. — Joy Harjo

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

Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom. — E.B. White

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame. — Baltasar Gracian

What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw. — Jimmy Breslin

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

THE ROAR OF THE draccus was like a trumpet, if you can imagine a trumpet big as a house, and made of stone, and thunder, and molten lead. I — Patrick Rothfuss

There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace. — Gloria Gaither

In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after — Al Hirt

Victory does not always come with trumpet-blasts and glory. — Sherryl Jordan

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

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

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion. — Edmund Phelps

I'm a terrible trumpet player. — Ray Stevens

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

I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles. — Charles Darwin

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. — William Shakespeare

Either he was suffering a terrible case of gas or he had a pint-size child practicing the trumpet in his back pocket. — David Sedaris

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

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement. — Winston Churchill

Milton, in his hand
The thing became a trumpet — William Wordsworth

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet. — Skylar Grey

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck. — Charles Dickens

Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing-
if it is only yours it won't wake the dead,
it will simply disturb the neighbours. — W. Ian Thomas

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

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

I would love to study guitar or trumpet. — Amy Winehouse

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

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

Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for. — Louis Armstrong

I do a mean mouth trumpet. — James Norton

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

The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms. — John Dryden

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray. — Benjamin Disraeli

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

When I fart my ass makes a trumpet sound that heralds the arrival of the smell. — Adam Carolla

Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet
pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love. — Ann Petry

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument. — Pat Metheny

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

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

You don't need to blow the trumpet when you accomplished something because your work, your action will speak itself. — Euginia Herlihy

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. — Al Stewart

Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born. — Nancy Tillman

I don't need a trumpet for you to know I'm coming. I simply arrive. — Z.E. Frey

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

The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage. — Garrison Keillor

The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound. — Tom Harrell

If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it! — Nick Cave

The trumpet is forceful. — Lester Bowie

The day is declining through the white afternoon to the long blue spring evening. He drives past a corner where someone is practicing on a trumpet — John Updike

Rizzoli wanted to be heard, and so she sat shoulder to shoulder with the boys in the trumpet section. — Tess Gerritsen

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few. — William Wordsworth

Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed. — Wynton Marsalis

A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity. — Mollie Marti