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Where the bright seraphim in burning row
Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow. — John Milton

Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones ... you are invited! — Anthony Burgess

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

Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space. — Elizabeth Alexander

Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing — Nathan Meyer Rothschild

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

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daffodils are yellow trumpets of spring — Richard L. Ratliff

I feel like spring after winter, and sun on the leaves; and like trumpets and harps and all the songs I have ever heard! — J.R.R. Tolkien

I got 15 trumpets where other women got hips
& a upright bass for both sides of my heart — Ntozake Shange

I feel almost physically ill in the presence of boring people who consider themselves especially interesting and who blow their own trumpets. — Karl Ove Knausgard

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

The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets threewise silverflamed, — Anthony Burgess

Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets. — John Neff

In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence
("Roundness") — Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

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

Trumpets! Can you bring your ... uh ... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal? — Jaco Pastorius

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. — Agnes De Mille

Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell sour annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy. — William Shakespeare

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

She nods and the elephant in the room throws back its head and trumpets so loud I think the roof might come off. — Sharon Bolton

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards. — Dick Dale

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

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

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

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. — Voltaire

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets,
And be buried in the dust of marching feet. — Etheridge Knight

When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.' I — Robert Jordan

Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically. — Zach Condon

Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle. — Paul McCartney

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

In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall. — Geoff Zanelli

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

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

Prayers are like the powerful sounds of trumpets. When God's people come together and pray, the walls that challenge progress will fall. — Ellen J. Barrier

For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,
And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds; — Edmund Spenser

Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave. — William Shakespeare

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

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

This is more a part of war than trumpets or starships. Quiet, unremembered moments of cruelty. — Pierce Brown

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

No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do. — Elie Abel

The trumpets of war shall sound at his footsteps, the ravens feed at his voice, and he shall wear a crown of swords. — Robert Jordan

Those who are patterns of mercy should be trumpets of praise. — Thomas Watson

The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide. — John Keats

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

Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears! — Dante Alighieri