#trumpet

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

#blow #bound #chance #enhance #haven

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk. ↗

— Alec Guinness

#muffled #silk #silver #superb #tenor

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano. ↗

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

#clarinet #decided #drums #flute #guitar

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth! ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#ceiling #comes #i #instrument #into

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

— Roger Bannister

#enjoy #horn #i #instruments #me

I'm a terrible trumpet player. ↗

— Ray Stevens

#player #terrible #trumpet

I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops. ↗

— Doc Severinsen

#classical #coming #feel #focus #got

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#first #first time #hymn #i #marine

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. ↗

— Theodore Hesburgh

#essence #leadership #trumpet #uncertain #very

Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#fight #get #getting #into #like