Quotes About Trumpet Playing

#1. A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right up there too. He is unique, in every sense of the term.

Freddie Hubbard

#2. A blanket could be used to improve the quality of your trumpet playing. Wrap the blanket tightly around and in the horn section before you start blowing, and my ears will thank you.

Jarod Kintz

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

Joy Harjo

#4. I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

Jackson Browne

#5. If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

Garth Brooks

#6. 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

#7. Caring too much about someone can make you lose your own limits.

M.F. Moonzajer

#8. The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.

Tom Harrell

#9. And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

Jackson Browne

#10. Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Al Stewart

#11. And with it all, he was proud of himself. He had brought his mother to tears. "Let her cry for once. Not me. It is time for her to learn.

Norman Mailer

#12. So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

Jackson Browne

#13. Smartass Student : 'a man must have his own master.'
Master of Stupidity: 'yea, everyone's somebody's bitch.

Toba Beta

#14. I auditioned for 'West Side Story' and got the part of Tony, but wasn't allowed to do it. They needed me to play trumpet. But I was glad, in the end, because I learned a lot about playing that score.

Stephen Costello

#15. My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

Pat Metheny

#16. Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought that was a waste of time. I'd go out on the street corner and be funny. In a minute.

George Carlin

#17. A secret to be happy. Enjoy your life to the max.. But keep God as your first priority

Joshua John

#18. 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

#19. According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.

Rod Stryker

#20. Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it.

Freddie Hubbard

#21. I got to be about 13 and everyone started playing guitars and being in rock bands. There was no place for me with my trumpet and I wasn't cool anymore. Although now if I played the trumpet it would be the coolest thing in the world.

Douglas Booth

#22. 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

#23. I am more and more convinced that true revolutionaries must perceive the revolution, because of its creative and liberating nature, as an act of love. For me, the revolution, which is not possible without a theory of revolution - and therefore science - is not irreconcilable with love.

Che Guevera

#24. As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth.

Lionel Ferbos

#25. I should say that mental strength is No. 1, experience [is] No. 2, physical strength is No. 3, and genetic ability that you're getting from Mother Nature probably comes after.

Wladimir Klitschko

#26. Sometimes in life, random things can blind-side you.

Michelle Ryan

#27. Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?

Charles R. Swindoll

#28. That since Cecilia's suicide, the Lisbons could hardly wait for night to forget themselves in sleep.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#29. He'd left me a song, a pair of shoes, and a reason to fly. It was enough.

R.K. Ryals

#30. So inveterate is their appetite for Heaven that our best method, at this stage, of attaching them to earth is to make them believe that earth can be turned into Heaven at some future date by politics or eugenics or 'science' or psychology, or what not. Real

C.S. Lewis

#31. The older you get, the closer your loves are to the surface. She was breathing rarefied air, the ether you come upon at high altitudes. I understood finally how long-held grievances and petty smallnesses might get burned off, and pure creativity and humour remain.

Elizabeth Hay

#32. People like to help, they like people that work hard, and they like people who are creating jobs and innovating.

Anonymous

#33. As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing second trumpet in the Tuxedo Brass Band
and they had some funeral marches that would just touch your heart, they were so beautiful.

Louis Armstrong

#34. I can play the trumpet. Before I became an actor, I wanted to be the next Louis Armstrong. I started young and got to grade seven. When I turned 13, everyone started whipping out guitars, looking cool and joining rock bands, so I stopped playing.

Douglas Booth

#35. 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