Trumpets Quotes
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Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing
Nathan Meyer Rothschild -
The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.
William Shakespeare
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Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.
Wynton Marsalis -
[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.
Eddie Condon -
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
Benjamin Cardozo -
He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
William Shakespeare -
...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.
Vladimir Nabokov -
There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
Herb Alpert -
Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
Herb Alpert -
Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.
William Cowper -
Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.
William Shakespeare -
Winter is on the road to spring. Some think it a surly road. I do not. A primrose road to spring were not as engaging to my heart as a frozen icicled craggy way angered over by strong winds that never take the iron trumpets from their lips.
William Alfred Quayle -
In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.
Geoff Zanelli
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I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.
Mike Figgis -
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
Dante Alighieri -
Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born.
Nancy Tillman -
I'm a terrible trumpet player...
Ray Stevens