#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

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it. ↗

— William Christopher Handy

#anything #get #into #like #out

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

#blowing #brother #everybody #fred #get

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beginning #begins #bells #century #divisions

The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#anything #because #calm #everyone #hear

I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#band #father #first #got #i

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

— Frankie Avalon

#i #learn #play #quickly #started

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy. ↗

— Kesha

#nerdy #played #pretty #saxophone #trumpet