#trumpet

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

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

#destiny #important #important decisions #known #life

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

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#like #make #seems #sound #tin

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#eight #i #playing #started #trumpet

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#circles #clifford #considered #ever #greatest

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#lyrical #singing #trumpet