Trumpets Quotes - Page 2

• The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.

  John Keats

  Music, Silver, Snarling

  'The Eve of St Agnes' (1820) st. 4

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• There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Wall, Army, Hands

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.339, Broadview Press

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• Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play it third. The trumpet solo will be played by our solo trumpet player. It's named 'Blumine,' which has something to do with flowers.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Flower, Mean

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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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• 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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• It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Country, Greatness, Patriotism

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• I'm not an amazing trumpet player. It's mostly smoke and mirrors. You shake the trumpet and it starts to vibrate in a ridiculous drunken way, or you flop notes at the right time and you don't have to play stuff that would take seven years to learn.

  Zach Condon

  Player, Mirrors, Years

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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• The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.

  Garrison Keillor

  Music, Long, People

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• At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic trumpet. Eleven hundred and sixty-three years after the foundation of Rome, the Imperial city, which had subdued and civilised so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia.

  Edward Gibbon

  Rome, Years, Cities

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• 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

  Blow, Reality, Shows

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• You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Blow, Common Vision

  Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

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• I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

  Dick Dale

  Play, Horny, Keyboards

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• I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a talented high-school trumpet player to me... he's jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

  Keith Jarrett

  Music, School, Player

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• I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Girl, Want, Lips

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• Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets.

  John Neff

  Cannons, Sells

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• [Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

  Eddie Condon

  Song, Play, Down And

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• I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

  Amy Winehouse

  Music, Guitar, Study

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• 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

  Father, Want, Heard

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• If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

  William Gilbert

  Success, Blow, Wish

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• When I fart my ass makes a trumpet sound that heralds the arrival of the smell.

  Adam Carolla

  Funny, Humor, Smell

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• 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

  School, Braces, Playing Drums

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• Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet; night rushed over him. As he fell slowly into sleep, Pippin had a strange feeling: he and Gandalf were still as stone, seated upon the statue of a running horse, while the world rolled away beneath his feet with a great noise of wind.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Running, Horse, Sleep

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.411, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality.

  Ronnie James Dio

  Taken, Rocks, Individuality

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

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• The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.

  Peter Drucker

  Play, People, Focus

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• Milton, in his hand
  The thing became a trumpet

  William Wordsworth

  Hands, Milton

  Edwin Paxton HOOD, William Wordsworth (1856). “William Wordsworth, a biography”, p.375

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