Top 86 Quotes About Trumpets
#1. Was he not inaugurated as President amidst the waving of flags and the sounds of trumpets, only to be martyred, as Christ was, because of his services for the lowly?
Terry Alford
#2. Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell sour annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.
William Shakespeare
#3. 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
#4. A man says to me, 'Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?' No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come.
Charles Spurgeon
#5. Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.
William Shakespeare
#6. Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones ... you are invited!
Anthony Burgess
#7. An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.
Toni Morrison
#8. Trumpets! Can you bring your ... uh ... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?
Jaco Pastorius
#9. No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Agnes De Mille
#10. Fat green frogs, the eternally grinning type destined to be shellacked into bizarre poses while wearing mariachi hats and holding toy trumpets and guitars and then sold in tourist traps all over Mexico, jostled lazily in the dappled shadows.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#11. The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.
John Keats
#12. This is more a part of war than trumpets or starships. Quiet, unremembered moments of cruelty.
Pierce Brown
#13. 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
#14. No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.
Elie Abel
#15. Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything.
Cootie Williams
#16. Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers without tidings, a comfort for infidels, jubilant joys to the devil, and an offense to God.
Robert E.Lee
#18. I inhale and a zephyr enters my body. The earth tilts its axis, changing my view of the heavens. Two clouds appear in the shape of trumpets. They part and rays of sunlight burst in. The sunlight speaks, 'Seek a new experience.
Lawren Leo
#19. Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
Thomas Mann
#21. 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
#22. The soul of the river had entered my soul, And the gathered power of my soul was moving So swiftly, it seemed to be at rest Under cities of cloud and under Spheres of silver and changing worlds Until I saw a flash of trumpets Above the battlements over Time!
Edgar Lee Masters
#23. bells. "I accept your kind invitation," Zelikman said. "My services as a physician ought just to offset my fare." The elephant gave a low moan, startling them, and a moment later they heard a faint trill, carried on the wind from off the river, and then another. "Trumpets," the nephew said.
Michael Chabon
#24. This was the moment he most loved about tourneying, that first glorious sortie with banners streaming, trumpets blaring, and the earth atremble with pounding hooves as hundreds of knights came together in a spectacular clash of sound and fury.
Sharon Kay Penman
#25. Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.
Voltaire
#26. In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
John Ruskin
#27. Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.
George Sewell
#28. Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets.
John Neff
#29. Winter is on the road to spring. Some think it a surly road. I do not. A primrose road to spring were not as engaging to my heart as a frozen icicled craggy way angered over by strong winds that never take the iron trumpets from their lips.
William Alfred Quayle
#30. 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. Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.
Zach Condon
#32. I got 15 trumpets where other women got hips
& a upright bass for both sides of my heart
Ntozake Shange
#33. Those who are patterns of mercy should be trumpets of praise.
Thomas Watson
#34. From heaven's standpoint, all spiritual victories are won not primarily in the pulpit, not primarily in the klieg light of publicity, nor yet through the ostentatious blaring of trumpets, but in the secret place of prayer.
Paul Billheimer
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. When Sue Wears Red When Susanna Jones wears red Her face is like an ancient cameo Turned brown by the age. Come with a blast of trumpets, Jesus! When Susanna Jones wears red A queen from some time-dead Egyptian night Walks once again. Blow trumpets, Jesus! And
Mary D. Esselman
#38. Pre-high tech, objects thunked and crashed and clopped, amid a thunder of drums, a tumult of trumpets. Today things beep and cheep and whistle. We have come from the roar of the lion to the chirp of the tree frog, ceaselessly bleating our identities while the frog-eating bats hover above us.
A.J. Orde
#39. Let all Black Poets die as trumpets,
And be buried in the dust of marching feet.
Etheridge Knight
#40. Recall the cold
Of Towton on Palm Sunday before dawn,
Wakefield, Tewkesbury : fastidious trumpets
Shrilling into the ruck ; some trampled
Acres, parched, sodden or blanched by sleet,
Stuck with strange-postured dead. Recall the wind's
Flurrying, darkness over the human mire.
Geoffrey Hill
#41. 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
#42. I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.
Dick Dale
#43. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets threewise silverflamed,
Anthony Burgess
#44. O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud
what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.
Dante Alighieri
#45. The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#46. The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.
Simon Blackburn
#47. The dragon is coming or I am a fool!" he cried. "Cut the bridges! To arms! To arms!" Then warning trumpets were suddenly sounded, and echoed along the rocky shores. The cheering stopped and the joy was turned to dread.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#48. History was an artist, maintaining the idea but changing the details, like a composer keeping the same theme but dulling it to a minor or lifting by an octave, now crooning it with violins, now blaring it on trumpets.
George R. Stewart
#49. For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,
And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;
Edmund Spenser
#50. It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire
#51. There's always people looking the other way when the miracles take place, people who want only a good night's sleep when the stars are dancing, comets falling, the angels leaning low out of midnight with their trumpets, their cantatas of longing.
Paul Russell
#52. Big's voice trumpets, as if from stage or pulpit; his words carry weight, even pass the salt comes out of his mouth in a thou-shalt-Ten-Commandments kind of way.
Jandy Nelson
#53. 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
#54. Glorious sex that poets write about and that angels blow their trumpets over absolutely requires the participants to be fully engaged and fully witnessing the entire event!
Roberto Hogue
#55. Like most Maya rulers, Chak Tok Ich'aak spent a lot of his time luxuriating in his court while dwarf servants attended to his whims and musicians played conch shells and wooden trumpets in the background. But
Charles C. Mann
#56. 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
#57. I love the sound of the distant bugle call in the countryside in early morning I love to be pushed in busy crowds I love the sound of gongs and trumpets along the streets I love circus performances I even wish to die in this moment of glorious encounter.
Ai Qing
#58. Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
Paul McCartney
#59. Where the bright seraphim in burning row
Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.
John Milton
#60. When Eudaemonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.
Plutarch
#61. The green garden, moonlit pool, lemons, lovers, and fish are all dissolved in the opal sky, across which, as the horns are joined by trumpets and supported by clarions there rise white arches firmly planted on marble pillars ...
Virginia Woolf
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Order prevails in Berlin!" You foolish lackeys! Your "order" is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will "rise up again, clashing its weapons," and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing:
I was, I am, I shall be!
Rosa Luxemburg
#66. Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. angels holding the seven trumpets are ready to sound off. But before the opening of the seventh seal; reapers are sent forth by our Blessed Hope to gather up His elect." Their upraised
Paul Bortolazzo
#68. Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
Dante Alighieri
#70. Tis ten to one this play can never please
All that are here. Some come to take their ease
And sleep an act or two; but those, we fear,
W' have frighted with our trumpets.
William Shakespeare
#71. Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they sayI'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear
St. Vincent
#72. I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.
Charles Darwin
#73. 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
#75. 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
#76. The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.
John Dryden
#77. 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
#78. It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
Charlie Munger
#80. The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.
Tom Harrell
#82. He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.
Publilius Syrus
#83. Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.
William Cowper
#84. Tonight I heard Louis's horn. My father heard it, too. The wind was right, and I could hear the notes of taps, just as darkness fell. There is nothing in all the world I like better than the trumpet of the swan.
E.B. White
#85. The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.
Charles Lamb
#86. 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
