A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
Alec Guinness

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
Jackson Browne

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

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

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

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
Roger Bannister

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

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.
Jo Stafford

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.
Norman Wisdom

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.
Mike Figgis

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.
Boris Vian

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
Bill Frisell

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
Jackson Browne

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

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

I'm a terrible trumpet player.
Ray Stevens

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

I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality.
Ronnie James Dio

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
William Gilbert

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
J. Donald Walters