Trumpeter Quotes

#1. My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that's when I said, "That's it!" Just like that, tunnelvision ever since.

Johnny Griffin

#2. The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.

Wynton Marsalis

#3. John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.

John Arbuthnot

#4. A fluent trumpeter with a bright tone and a forward-looking style ...

Scott Yanow

#5. And most of the time, when you're young and dumb - you know everything! Charles Freeman Lee bebop pianist and trumpeter

Annette Johnson

#6. I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners.

Frankie Avalon

#7. The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

Bill Vaughan

#8. We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.

Diane Keaton

#9. Motivation is like nutrition. It must be taken daily and in healthy doses to keep it going

Norman Vincent Peale

#10. She was humming something melancholy and familiar. I strained to make it out - a folk song? a lullabye? - and then realized it was the theme to M*A*S*H. Suicide is painless. I went downstairs.

Gillian Flynn

#11. To be an actor for 30-odd years trying to become recognized, and to end up playing a full prosthetic and a character 3 foot 9', or something like that, is ... well, it just shows that you can get actors to do anything.

John Rhys-Davies

#12. When I talk to friends and editors about possible projects, especially about projects that might come with a significant cash advance, they usually suggest a biography. Sometimes I'm tempted, but the prospect of spending years researching and writing about someone else's life offends my vanity.

Michael Dirda

#13. it ain't as hard as picking cotton

Wynton Marsalis

#14. Out my left, I saw baboon bum, out my right, my long-lost uncle Amos. Naturally, I decided to focus on the right.

Rick Riordan

#15. I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.

Toby Jones

#16. What cannot be cannot be, besides witch, it's impossible.

Roberto Bolano

#17. What kind of person actually sits down and decides that no one should be allowed to end a sentence with a preposition? Not even decide what ideas you should or shouldn't talk about, but to actually make rules about what order to put your words in ... It's such an amazing kind of petty tyranny.

Jonathan Blum Kate Orman

#18. Through my attempt to get pregnant through IVF, we sadly found out that I have early stages of breast cancer. It's been a shock.

Giuliana Rancic

#19. Fighting for peace is a beautiful spiritual revolution.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann