Quotes About Music

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 played the coronet first, and then I upgraded to the trumpet. First song I learned on there was 'Hot Cross Buns.'

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

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 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.

I played trumpet in school at an early age.

I started piano like my sisters. After one year or two, I didn't like it anymore. Then, because I like trumpet, I played the cornet. When you are 7, you can't play trumpet - you play cornet. And something didn't go well. The teacher was too hard. Too rough. Suddenly, there was this instrument, the flute, that I could immediately play.

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

In the process of them developing this instrument, I've been playing the melodica in the style I would like the harmoniboard to be played, which is a mix between a harmonica and keyboard. I play with trumpet style techniques. I really like the mobility of being able to step off the piano and bring the music to the audience.

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.

The radio is playing jazz, and I listen to the sound of the trumpet playing a solo until I become that sound.

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 played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at 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.

When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.

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.

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.