Trumpets Quotes - Page 10

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

  William Cowper

  Gossip, Ears, Contention

  William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.212

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• Nobody else even approaches the trumpet like [Sweets Edison] does: Never too much and always plenty. He's the greatest trumpet player to play along with singers. He exactly knows how to play with you, how to answer you about what you just sang ... On top of that, he has some great sense of humor, both as a musician and as a man. Every time I see him, I'm laughing so much. Sweets is impeccable and incomparable.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Sweet, Player, Men

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• Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christian, Character, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.138

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• My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.

  Elvis Costello

  Stars, Dad, Father

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• 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

  Mean, Thinking, Wind

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. July 9, 2007.

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• When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it.

  Ada Leverson

  Depressing, Real, Men

  Ada Leverson (2012). “Love at Second Sight”, p.100, tredition

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• 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

  Teacher, Prayer, Law

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.165

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• [The Golden Notebook] was not a trumpet for Women's Liberation. It described many female emotions of aggression, hostility, resentment. It put them into print. Apparently what many women were thinking, feeling, experiencing, came as a great surprise. Instantly a lot of very ancient weapons were unleashed, the main ones, as usual, being on the theme of "She is unfeminine", "She is a man-hater".

  Doris Lessing

  Notebook, Men, Thinking

  Doris May Lessing (1989). “The Doris Lessing Reader”, Jonathan Cape

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• From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.

  Gertrude Stein

  Progress, Age, Would Be

  Written in 1895 as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College. Published as "Form and Intelligibility" in the Radcliffe Manuscripts, 1949.

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• When Eudæmonidas 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

  Wise, Men, Sound

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• 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

  Moving, Clouds, Cities

  Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.185, Prestwick House Inc

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• [Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with the band, you know. But Monk would just sit there like this. And all of a sudden there'd be a pause from all the trumpets and everything and Monk would go 'plink!' like that. And everybody would go 'Yeah!

  Ray Brown

  Mean, Player, Piano

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• You'll be riding along in an automobile. You'll be the driver perhaps. You're a Christian. There'll be several people in the automobile with you, maybe someone who is not a Christian. When the trumpet sounds you and the other born-again believers in that automobile will be instantly caught away - you will disappear, leaving behind only your clothes and physical things that cannot inherit eternal life. That unsaved person or persons in the automobile will suddenly be startled to find the car suddenly somewhere crashes.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Religious, Humor

  "Nuclear War and the Second Coming of Christ". Book by Jerry Fatwell, 1983.

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• For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in, the Church of Christ, encouraged a capella, but didn't allow musical instruments, so even though my parents allowed me to play trumpet in the band, and I was pretty good at it, it had this baggage.

  Gary Panter

  Growing Up, Play, Long

  Interview with David Jacob Kramer, believermag.com. June 1, 2009.

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

  Simon Blackburn

  Vision, Absolutism, Spectacles

  Simon Blackburn (2005). “Truth: A Guide”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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• Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing

  Nathan Meyer Rothschild

  Money, War, Cannons

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• Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

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• 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

  Army, Two, Brilliant

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• My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.

  Chick Corea

  Dad, Player, Piano

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• I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Moving, Athlete

  "Sir Roger Bannister". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2004.

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• I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

  Drew Carey

  Kids, Band

  Interview with Mary Buckheit, proxy.espn.com. September 9, 2002.

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• I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

  John Lydon

  Song, Rap, Years

  "Johnny Rotten Praises Battling Bands, Trashes Internet Liars". Interview With Liot Van Buskirk, www.wired.com. September 3, 2007.

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• With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

  Norman Mailer

  Wall, Pride, Artist

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Deer Park: A Novel”, p.368, Random House

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• With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring teeth through the crimson walls, rending them; the ravenous garden slavered over its prey and every brick was shown in the act of falling. Amid the violence of this transformation, the oblivion of the embrace went on. The awakened girl, in all her youthful loveliness, still clasped in the arms of a lover from whom all the flesh had fallen. He was a grinning skeleton.

  Angela Carter

  Girl, Wall, Flower

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

  Anthony Burgess

  Uncles, Angel, Devil

  Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess (1972). “A clockwork orange”, HarperCollins Publishers

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