Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still.
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.
A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right up there too. He is unique, in every sense of the term.
The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such.
In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.
The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.
As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth.
Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me. It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'.
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.
I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.
The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.
If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!
My job - and it's really true - is that it's constantly evolving and changing. When I was doing the Chet Baker movie I was obsessed with playing the trumpet, and to my absolute shock I haven't picked the trumpet up since we wrapped. It was so much work. I thought I was going to keep playing the rest of my life, 'cause it was fun, it's just a lot of work. And it's a really unique job that exposes you to a lot.
One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.
The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many the trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home, like laborers from, the field, at dinner-time, and they think themselves lucky to get the dinner.
