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Quotes About Trumpet

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
A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
~ Alec Guinness
Instead of a sneeze, what emerged sounded like an elephant strangling on a trumpet.
~ Jude Watson
When the work was done Gabriel would compose music for the bone trumpet, a lament for Vissarion played on an instrument made from Vissarion's femur. Vissarion would be pleased, he thought, that his remains had become music, leaping into life like Athene from the thigh of Zeus.
~ Walter Jon Williams
The heroic efforts and successes of the Reformers on the Continent, in the presence of Papal bulls and inquisitions, were a trumpet call to independence to the people of this priest-cursed land; and many responded right nobly, ready to stand amid the faggots at the stake rather than bear the iron heel that bruised them.
~ James Kerr
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
~ Miles Davis
Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.
~ Eugene McCarthy
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Meditate of Christ's coming to judgment. Surely thou wilt not easily sleep while this trumpet, that shall call all mankind to judgment, shall sound in thy ear.
~ William Gurnall
And now the hero comes- the trumpet of his people. And his voice is enlarged like a movie's lion. He roars, he screams so well for everyone, his tantrums tame a people. He is the Son of God, if God is Resentment. And God is Resentment- a pharaoh for the disappointed people.
~ William H. Gass
The voice of the archangel is the trumpet call of God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.
~ Frederick Douglass
I've only read a few chapters of this book, Trumpet Blast Warning but it's amazing. All of his statements are backed up by original quotes & references from top politicians, the media, etc, so you can check for yourselves & discover this is not a conspiracy theory about world government, it's all backed by facts! All Christians, especially pastors & prayer groups really should read this book. Many thanks to Jason Carter for sending me a copy!
~ Jason Carter
What's that smell? Dude, did you just blast the butt trumpet?
~ Douglas Preston Lincoln Child
Of course the Times tried to insist on speaking with Wolfe. When the last trumpet sounds the Times will want to check with Gabriel himself, and for the next edition will try to get it confirmed by even Higher Authority.
~ Rex Stout
I thought when I was a young man that I would conquer the world with truth. I thought I would lead an army greater than Alexander ever dreamed of, not to conquer nations, but to liberate mankind. With truth. With the golden sound of the Word. But only a few heard the trumpet. Only a few understood. The rest of them put on black and sat in Chapel.
~ Richard Llewellyn
The trumpet of his own virtues.
~ William Shakespeare
The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn.
~ William Shakespeare
O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue O, farewell Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell Othello's occupation's gone
~ William Shakespeare
For till the thunder and trumpet be, Soul may divide from body, but not we One from another
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
For till thunder in the trumoet be, Soul may divide from body but not we One from another
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
We need to see Jesus-to meet his blazing eyes of heart-searching holiness, to wake up at the trumpet blast of his voice, to respond to his jealous demand for exclusive and passionate loyalty. Shocked insensible by the impact of his splendor, we need then to hear his words of compassionate comfort, quelling our fears and quickening our hopes.
~ Dennis E. Johnson
These interludes, which impede the advance of the seal and trumpet cycles toward their climax, inject into the experience of hearing or reading the Book of Revelation a taste of the divine delay, which prolongs the time for repentance while it deters the martyrs' longed-for vindication: "How long, () Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" (6:111).
~ Dennis E. Johnson
I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.
~ Wendell Pierce