Trumpets Quotes

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

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!

Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing

Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets.

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

Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited!

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.

Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?

Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.

Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.

You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.

The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.

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.

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

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

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

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear

I'm a terrible trumpet player...

My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.

When she read just now to James, 'and there were numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets,' and his eyes darkened, she thought, why should they grow up, and lose all that?

Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything.

The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.

Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.

...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.

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.

Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet

I spent my entire life working with the smallest budget I could get. Just working with old, junky, donated equipment. The only things I bought myself were the trumpet and the $9 ukulele.

I put myself in the studio and I really made sure to say, 'Well, if I would normally reach for a trumpet, why don't I reach for the next nearest instrument instead?'

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.

Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.

Bethlehem was just the beginning. I call Jesus Christ's next appearance, Bethlehem, Act 2. No silent night this time, however. The skies will open, trumpets will blast, and a new kingdom will begin.

Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it.

The trumpet is forceful.

The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.

That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

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.