Trumpets Quotes - Page 9

• I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

  Kesha

  Saxophone, Nerdy

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

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• To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.

  Umberto Eco

  Player, Men, Skills

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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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• 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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• Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." How often I think of that 'ought.' No sugary sentiment there. Just the stern, glorious trumpet call, OUGHT. But can words tell the joy buried deep within? Mine cannot. It laughs at words.

  Amy Carmichael

  Inspiration, Thinking, Laughing

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• It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day easily associated with those abstract truths and purities that dissolve in the sunshine or fade out in mocking laughter by the light of the moon. The trees and clouds were carved in classical severity; the sounds of the countryside had harmonized to a monotone, metallic as a trumpet, breathless as the Grecian urn.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Laughter, Sunshine

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.246, Cambridge University Press

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• Love isn't a burst o' trumpets and a flock o' doves descendin' out o' the heavens to roost on yer heads. Tis sharin' a cup o' tea by the hearth on a cold winter's night. 'Tis the look in yer husband's eyes when ye lay yer first child in his arms. Tis the ache in yer heart when ye watch the light in his eyes dim fer the last time, and know a part o' ye has gone out o' this world with him.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Children, Husband, Heart

  Teresa Medeiros (2011). “Charming the Prince”, p.311, Bantam

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• I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

  Norman Wisdom

  Play, Piano, Horny

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

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• The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and the reed instruments had the good taste to admire my jacket. The Trumpets held a parade in honor of our great nation, while the French Horns waxed nostalgic about something or other. The Trombones had too much to drink. The Percussion beat the band, and the Tuba stayed home playing cards with his landlady, the Harp, taking sips of warm milk a blue little cup. “But the Composer is still dead.

  Daniel Handler

  Home, Fate, Blue

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• ...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I hear it: I make a stroke with the bow: the symphony begins in the depths, or springs with a bound onto the stage. If the old imbeciles hadn’t discovered only the false significance of Self, we wouldn’t have to now sweep away those millions of skeletons which have been piling up the products of their one-eyed intellect since time immemorial, and claiming themselves to be their authors!

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Spring, Skeletons, Self

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• That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wall, Fall, Should

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.112, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'd address his way of trying to discourage Ian later. After all, he could have come up with something other than saying I was a whiny, smelly, trumpet-snoring bad lay.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Trying, Addresses, Way

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• Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. 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, Humility, Pride

  "Pieces of Eight". Book by Sydney J. Harris, 1982.

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• …So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

  John Dryden

  Sky, Crumbling, Lasts

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day' (1687) 'Grand Chorus'

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• He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

  William Shakespeare

  Pride, Glasses, Proud

  1602 Agamemnon.Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc.3, l.153-5.

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• In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Horse, Children, Hobbies

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Attack Upon 'Christendom'”

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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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• 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

  Spiritual, Prayer, Light

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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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• We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Blow, Keys

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• It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

  Charlie Munger

  Quiet, Habit, Good Habits

  "Berkshire Behind the Scenes: Part 3". Berkshire Hathaway Q&A session, www.fool.com. May 30, 2006.

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• I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.

  Rahsaan Roland Kirk

  Mother, Water, Violin

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• I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of four different guys I knew growing up. Patsy , the waitress, is a mix of about three different people. I like doing it that way. I start with the characters, as opposed to plot, location, or some visual element. I write more by ear than by eye. I always work on the different sound of each character, trying to make sure each has a specific voice and speech pattern, which some writers could care less about.

  Warren Leight

  Growing Up, Eye, Writing

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• I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

  Jo Stafford

  Philosophy, Player, Talking

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