Jazz Trumpet Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Dizzy Gillespie, the jazz trumpet player, once said, "It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play." He was one of my special ones. And he was quite correct. Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But

Mitch Albom

#3. I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.

Roy Eldridge

#4. Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

Herb Alpert

#5. You never know what forms self-respect will take, especially with people whose rules of life are few.

Saul Bellow

#6. There's a pigeon's nest on the branch of the tree outside the window. A chick is growing up in it. I'm happy about that

Aya Kito

#7. 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.

Bruce Springsteen

#8. Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

Savielly Tartakower

#9. Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed.

Julia Stone

#10. I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.

Douglas Booth

#11. The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.

Doc Severinsen

#13. They'll all be waiting. Waiting for me to fall.
So, come on , guys. I'm just one girl. No big hero, no protector of justice, not even a bona fide one-hundred-percent slayer. So what are you waiting for?
Take me on.
Hurt my world.
I dare you.

Joss Whedon

#14. Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am!

Henry David Thoreau

#15. There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

Leo Tolstoy

#16. to second guess your preferences and tastes based upon how others may interpret them is to unduly deny yourself well-earned freedom.

Joseph R. Lallo

#17. Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.

Wynton Marsalis

#18. You are wise if you handle time better than you handle money.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. Every stage of life lay the foundation for the next stage of life. Treasure each stage of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Joy Harjo

#21. Just when the caterpillar thought "I am incapable of moving," it became a butterfly.

Annette Thomas

#22. Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.

Debbie Harry

#24. Finally, after Death was ready to hang himself from boredom, the director cleared his throat.

Leigh Teale

#25. When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.

Zach Woods

#26. I'm a trumpet player, and I sing jazz.

Colin Salmon