#trumpet

Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out. ↗

— William Christopher Handy

#get #life #like #out #put

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#artist #blow #defiance #every #exists

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

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

#because #get #i #like #lips

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

#amazing #around #brother #by the time #city

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. ↗

— Al Stewart

#day #judgment #louis #louis armstrong #playing

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#been #blow #clear #explain #forgotten

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

— Dick Dale

#everything #horn #i #i can #instrument

it ain't as hard as picking cotton ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#american #bebop #family #jazz #life

Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom. ↗

— E.B. White

#the-trumpet-of-the-swan #freedom