#trumpet

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance. ↗

#leadership #opportunity #self-importance #serve #trumpet

A Letter to Andre Breton, Originally Composed on a Leaf of Lettuce With an Ink-dipped Carrot On my bed, my green comforter draped over my knees like a lumpy turtle, I think about the Berlin Wall of years that separates us. In my own life, the years are beginning to stack up like a Guinness World Record’s pile of pancakes, yet I’m still searching for some kind of syrup to believe in. In the shadows of my pink sheet, I see your face, Desnos’ face, and two clock faces staring at each other. I see a gaping wound that ebbs rose petals, while a sweaty armpit holds an orchestra. Beethoven, maybe. A lover sings a capella, with the frothiness of a cappuccino. Starbucks, maybe. There’s an hourglass, too, and beneath the sands lie untapped oil reserves. I see Dali’s mustache, Magritte’s pipe, and bowling shoes, which leaves the question-- If you could time travel through a trumpet, would you find today and tomorrow too loud? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#carrot #dali #future #magritte #poem

The trumpet is forceful. ↗

— Lester Bowie

#trumpet

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ↗

— Voltaire

#forbidden #kill #large #large numbers #numbers

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. ↗