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“affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.”

Shows Reality Greater Blow Trumpets Self-importance

Author:Lydia M. Child

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

Firsts Instruments Trumpets

Author:Pat Metheny

“Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. My family problems disappeared. I didnt have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, pencilled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool.”

World Made Self Problem Strong Answers One Thing My Family Lays Score Nightmare Bells Trumpets Self Reliant Family Problems

Author:Quincy Jones

“You'll be riding along in an automobile. You'll be the driver perhaps. You're a Christian. There'll be several people in the automobile with you, maybe someone who is not a Christian. When the trumpet sounds you and the other born-again believers in that automobile will be instantly caught away - you will disappear, leaving behind only your clothes and physical things that cannot inherit eternal life. That unsaved person or persons in the automobile will suddenly be startled to find the car suddenly somewhere crashes.”

“At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic trumpet. Eleven hundred and sixty-three years after the foundation of Rome, the Imperial city, which had subdued and civilised so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia.”

Years Three Sound Hours Cities History Mankind Hundred Foundation Germany Gates Rome Three Years Sixty Tribes Midnight Fury Gothic Eleven Awakened Trumpets Roman Empire Civilised

Author:Edward Gibbon

“Milk in a mother's breast-that's cool. Milk in a mouth-that's cool too. But milk in my trumpet? Not so cool. I have to play that thing.”

Play Mother Mouths Breasts Milk Trumpets

Author:Wynton Marsalis

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

School Middle Trumpets Middle School Braces Playing Drums

Author:Brendon Urie

“Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.”

Source: Nicholas Nickleby: Easyread Edition

“Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Success Life Is Positive Educational Bad Ass Life Is Like Trumpets

Author:William Christopher Handy

“Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet”

Hands Trumpets Milton

Book:William Wordsworth, a biography

Source: William Wordsworth, a biography

“Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard!”

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“If all would lead their lives in love like me, Then bloody swords and armor should not be; No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move, Unless alarm came from the camp of love.”

Ifs Love Should Moving Sleep Like Me Peaceful Camps Bloody Alarms Armor Trumpets Peaceful Sleep

Book:The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion

Source: The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion

“O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.”

Ifs Mind May Shows Light Heaven Fantasy Thousand Blow Senses Stealing Loud Trumpets

Book:Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Italian text and verse translation

Source: Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Italian text and verse translation

“My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.”

Feels Firsts Made Desire Reading Heaven Judgment Conviction Revelations Affected Imitation Trumpets

Author:Ellen Glasgow

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

Death Poetry Dies Black Feet Poet Dust Buried Trumpets All Black

Book:The Essential Etheridge Knight

Source: The Essential Etheridge Knight

“Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.”

Littles Long Two Shows Earth Heaven Black Church White Sun Drink Angel Rain Prejudice Clouds Blow Heavy Storm Cleaning Trumpets Sweeping Pastures Nightingales Food And Drink

Author:Jacques Roumain

“...Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the world. Generally, it is the products of modern food science that make the boldest health claims, and these are often founded on incomplete and often bad science.”

World Bigs Modern Products Claims Secure Incomplete Trumpets Approved Fda

Book:Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

“It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.”

Moments Realizing Power Speech Criticism Our Time Trumpets

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.”

Player Trumpets Copying Saxophone

Author:Bill Frisell

“The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.”

Men Challenges Loss Destruction Fortune Strokes Thunder Trumpets Exertion True Man

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Blow trumpet, for the world is white with May.”

World May White Blow Trumpets

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Sound Laughing Plenty Trumpets

Author:Publilius Syrus

“The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.”

Lasts Nations Sound Loud Resurrection Tombs Trumpets Wondrous Rebound

Author:Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

“What will you do when the Law of God comes in terror; when the trumpet of the archangel shall tear you from your grave; when the eyes of God shall burn their way into your guilty soul; when the great books shall be opened and all your sin and shame shall be punished... can you stand against an angry Law in that Day?”

Way Book Soul Eye Law Sin Tears Shame Angry Terror Graves Guilty Trumpets Great Book Archangel

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426

“It is agreed that all sound which is the material of music is of three sorts. First is harmonica, which consists of vocal music; second is organica, which is formed from the breath; third is rhythmica, which receives its numbers from the beat of the fingers. For sound is produced either by the voice, coming through the throat; or by the breath, coming through the trumpet or tibia, for example; or by touch, as in the case of the cithara or anything else that gives a tuneful sound on being struck.”

Giving Firsts Three Sound Voice Numbers Music Cases Example Materials Music Is Beats Thirds Breaths Fingers Throat Vocal Trumpets Harmonicas Seville Vocal Music

Author:Isidore of Seville

“The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.”

People Names Stars Water Sky Spring Angel Rivers Thirds Died Environmental Bitter Trumpets Torches Blazing Wormwood

Author:John the Apostle

“The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.”

Play Purpose Wind Southern Hollow Trumpets Tempest Whistling

Book:Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

“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.”

Ifs Virtue Wise Conscience Contrary Worms Trumpets Impediments

Book:Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling

Source: Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling

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

Doe Natural Trumpets Renunciation

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“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.”

Believe Accepting Ears Halls Concerts Trumpets Ensemble

Author:Geoff Zanelli

“For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in, the Church of Christ, encouraged a capella, but didn't allow musical instruments, so even though my parents allowed me to play trumpet in the band, and I was pretty good at it, it had this baggage.”

Feels Long Made Play Parent Christ Church Growing Up Growing Grew Involved Band Grew Up Long Time Instruments Musical Guilty Trumpets Baggage Musical Instruments Church Of Christ

Author:Gary Panter

“I used to play trumpet when I was a kid, and then I got braces, and I couldn't really play it anymore, so sometimes I wish I could still play that; I think it's a great instrument, so maybe one of these days I'll pick it back up.”

Thinking Stills Sometimes Play Kids Used Wish Picks Instruments These Days Trumpets Braces

Author:Eric Hutchinson

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

Vision Trumpets Spectacles Absolutism

Book:Truth: A Guide

Source: Truth: A Guide

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

War Money Sells Trumpets Firing Cannons

Author:Nathan Meyer Rothschild

“Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.”

“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.”

Two Hell Heard Army Harmony Brilliant Smarter Splendid Trumpets Cannons

Author:Voltaire

“My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.”

Way Wells Play Born Player Taught Dad Band Late Musician Standards Areas Jazz My Dad Come Up Radio Active Fantastic Piano Tunes Boston Trumpets

Author:Chick Corea

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.”

“Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things”

Men Fighting Force Peace United Pieces Cutting Mines Contradiction Mutual Quarrels Trumpets Making Peace

Book:The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces

Source: The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces

“Sometimes it's an external approach where one can learn the skills required, let's say, learn to play the trumpet and in that process other things happen. It's magical: through the process of practicing four hours a day you start focusing on emotion and when you pick up the trumpet it's filled with feeling.”

Sometimes Play Feelings Happens Process Hours Emotion Four Skills Approach Picks Filled Things Happen Trumpets

Author:Richard Gere

“The trumpet player, Ronnie Hughes, has still got his chops today but for some strange reason the culture doesn't call him because he's 83-years-old. And these people are in their 70s and 80s and 90s and came with such verve every day and would still be shooting these 10 and 12 hour days. So, that in itself made this an extraordinarily special occasion for all of us. It wasn't a job for the crew after a few days, it took on another tone.”

People Years Made Stills Reason Today Jobs Culture Hours Player Special Strange Occasions Shooting Tone Crew 80s Trumpets Self Made Special Occasion 80s And 90s

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“To keep your actions and your plans secret always has been a very good thing . .. Marcus Crassus said to one who asked him when he was going to move the army: 'Do you believe that you will be the only one not to hear the trumpet?”

Believe Has Beens Said Action Moving Secret Plans Army Good Things Very Good Trumpets

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“As a drummer, you can't fake the instrument. A trumpet, you could be blowing air; a person who plays the trumpet could still say, "Oh, those aren't the right hand motions." On drums, you have to actually hit them. You can't fake it.”

Persons Stills Play Hands Air Instruments Fake Drummer Trumpets

Author:Miles Teller

“There is language going on out there- the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning derived over eons of expression... We have yet to become fluent in the language -and music- of the wild.”

Language Expression Trumpets Fluent

Author:Boyd Norton

“Trump appeals to the disaffected by loudly trumpet-ing what they want to hear: other people are always the problem, and the solution is to either put them in their proper place or get rid of them.”

People Want Problem Trump Solutions Appeals Trumpets

Author:Michael R. Burch

“I'm a terrible trumpet player...”

Player Terrible Trumpets

Author:Ray Stevens

“Having heard Clifford Brown play all those fast runs, I used to really practice Clarke trumpet exercises all day long so that I could play fast. That's all I wanted to do. I was like a child with a toy.”

Children Long Play Running Wanted Used Practice Heard Exercise Brown Toys Trumpets

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.”

Sound Possibility Instruments Guitar Range Piano Trumpets

Author:The Edge

“I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.”

Ifs World Heart Asks Talking My Heart Please Quiet Absence Permission Trumpets Talking About Me

Book:The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

“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.”

America Lost Sound Picks Steady Fabric Trumpets Strands

Author:Eugene McCarthy