If you wish in this world to advance your merits you`re bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven`t a chance.
William S. Gilbert
For a young actor it was intimidating. But! You look into the eyes and you see actors know actors. It`s like playing jazz. You really have to go there with your trumpet and compete.
Peter O`Toole
The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.
Wynton Marsalis
The instrumentation was a little different. A little more experimental this time. We had saxophone and trumpet and strings and piano. The other two (albums) I`ve done are more straight-up singer/songwriter. The others were real story songs and these were ...
Ann Yerger
So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let`s face it.
Jackson Browne
Same, just the same. Nine pieces ---- a trumpet, two trombones, reed, congas, drums, piano and vocalist. That`s what a Latin jazz orchestra should be.
Eddie Palmieri
My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.
Pat Metheny
It is all very well for the government to trumpet the merits of technology in reducing carbon emissions, but it simply isn`t enough; we need robust, measurable targets, not just vague aspirations.
Augustin Chicarro
I would hate to say I will win a medal as it would be blowing my own trumpet but I am going to go into the race as competitive as possible - I am not entering for the fun of it.
Barbara DeConcini
I still play jazz, and I`ve always got that trumpet very handy, but I`m coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.
Doc Severinsen
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.
Wynton Marsalis
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you`re bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven`t a chance.
William S. Gilbert
