#trumpet

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

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

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#down #flat #get #low #match

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#facility #i #kind #same #shouting

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#blowing #here #i #made #my own

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

When I blow my trumpet to signal the glorious new morning, my cheeks bulge like two scoops of vanilla. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #ice-cream #trumpets #funny

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people. ↗

— George Galloway

#flags #fooling #means #patriotism #people

I blew the love trumpet until my cheeks were blue. Then I paid 34 bucks for a taxicab ride home so I could admire my receding hairline in the mirror. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #love #surreal #trumpet