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• 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

  Brother, Player, Cities

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• I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

  Mike Figgis

  Guitar, Play, Piano

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• 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

  Beautiful, Heart, New Orleans

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• Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I'd like to incorporate that into a character.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Kings, Athlete, Character

  "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Talks THE THING and BULLET TO THE HEAD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 13, 2011.

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• 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

  Sweet, Unique, Musician

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• You will not be asked about your culture in your grave. And you will not be judged based on your Father's last name. When the trumpet blares, there will be no more kings, only slaves. And your family traditions will not be able to keep you safe.

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Kings, Father, Names

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• Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
  Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,
  Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
  Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
  And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end.
  The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet
  Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit
  Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Winter, Garden, Rivers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.83, Delphi Classics

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

  Lionel Ferbos

  Play, Long, Teeth

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• The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

  Charles Lamb

  Doe, Tease, Provoking

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale”, p.59

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• No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.

  Elie Abel

  Matter, Telephones, Facts

  Elie Abel (1968). “The Missile Crisis”

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• We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.

  Robert James Graves

  Sound, Drs, Ears

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• I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.

  Wendell Pierce

  Practice, Two, Littles

  "Wendell Pierce: Everyone's Favorite Fake Trombone Player". Interview with Patrick Jarenwattananon, www.npr.org. July 4, 2011.

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• Until mankind heeds the message on the Hebrew trumpet blown, and the faith of the whole world's people is the faith that is our own.

  Israel Zangwill

  People, World, Messages

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• 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

  Brother, Piano, House

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• When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.

  Frankie Avalon

  Play, Avalon, Fortunate

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Couple, Party, Years

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• Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.

  Joyce Cary

  Morning, Men, People

  joyce cary (1944). “the hore's mouth”

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• Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spring, Winter, Wind

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 65

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• 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

  Morning, Wish To Die, Joy

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• There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Men, Dust

  Umberto Eco (2003). “Baudolino”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

  Dante Alighieri

  Imagination, Sound, Ears

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• History belongs to the intercessors, who believe the future into being. If this is so, then intercession, far from being an escape from action, is a means of focusing for action and of creating action. By means of our intercessions we veritably cast fire upon the earth and trumpet the future into being.

  Walter Wink

  Believe, Mean, Fire

  Walter Wink (2010). “The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium”, p.187, Harmony

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• Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Death, Brother, Spring

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• I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

  Boris Vian

  Thinking, Bits

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

  Herb Alpert

  Player, Circles, Jazz

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