Quotes with trumpet

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  • Baltasar Gracian Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Alec Guinness A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
    Alec Guinness
    English actor (1914 - 2000)
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  • Aneurin Bevan He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Bret Harte Last night, above the whistling wind, I heard the welcome rain, — A fusillade upon the roof, A tattoo on the pane: The keyhole piped; the chimney-top A warlike trumpet blew.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Kriyananda Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
    Kriyananda
    Romanian-born religious leader (born James Donald Walters) (1926 - 2013)
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  • Lord George Byron The dead have been awakened - shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants - shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe - and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Theodore M. Hesburgh The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
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  • Bria Skonberg There's nothing worse than bad scatting, except maybe bad mouth trumpet. Mouth trumpet may sound like a trumpet, but it's really more like playing a kazoo. The instant you do your solo, the audience has a bit of a chuckle.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Bria Skonberg With my trumpet voice, I love gritty, plunger, growly sounds. But vocally, I love Anita O'Day - a raspier but definitely softer sound. Part of the fun has been finding vehicles or writing for both of those sounds.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • William Shakespeare He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
    Troilus and Cressida 2, 3
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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