Quotes About Talent

I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

I always felt like the trumpet or trombone player was always the coolest dude in the room.

Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it.

I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I'd like to incorporate that into a character.

My first ambition in life, I made up my mind I was going to become Miles Davis. I studied music, music theory. I played trumpet for nine years. One day, my mother explained, 'You can't be Miles Davis. There's one, and he's got that job.'

I played trumpet in school at an early age.

When I was 8 years old, there was a showcase of all the instruments you can learn at my school. This guy was playing the trumpet. I heard it and was like 'Oof I got to learn to play.' The sound - everything was amazing. I was blown away.

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

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

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

I've always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I'd still be drawing the same pictures... should I have picked trumpet or accordion or guitar, whatever it may be. The sounds in my head are still the same.

I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis.

As you know, I played a little trumpet with Elvis. I overdub a few drum licks here and there on a session, but I'm not a drummer by any means.

Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as composers, conductors and pianists.

I started off with the flute and French horn, and then I was playing trumpet in the jazz band.

I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

I do a mean mouth trumpet.

I'm a trumpet player, and I sing jazz.

We had a bunch of instruments around the house. Like, I played different instruments, trumpet, bass, drums, piano, all that, but whatever I could get my hands on.

My father was a very big musical influence on me. He was a trumpet player. And that's what I started with. Then, when I was 7, my parents introduced me to the piano.