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" After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument. "

" As a trumpet player, I was playing Xenakis, Lindberg: very challenging, technical, atonal, and I enjoyed it. "

" As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth. "

" As time passed on, got to hear some players who were straight up funky, not just jazz. Nat Adderley, for instance - he's a funky trumpet player, so he was my man. "

Cynthia Robinson

" A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk. "

" As you know, I played a little trumpet with Elvis. I overdub a few drum licks here and there on a session, but I'm not a drummer by any means. "

" Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do... The trumpet requires a lot of diligence, and I haven't had the time. "

" Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. "

" Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as composers, conductors and pianists. "

" He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle. "

" I auditioned for 'West Side Story' and got the part of Tony, but wasn't allowed to do it. They needed me to play trumpet. But I was glad, in the end, because I learned a lot about playing that score. "

Stephen Costello

" I do a mean mouth trumpet. "

" I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello. "

Roger Bannister

" I fell in love with playing the trumpet because of what we call 'hot jazz' of the 1920s and 1930s, music that has a higher energy to it. "

" I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time. "

Wynton Marsalis

" I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet. "

" I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy. "

" I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication. "

" I'm a terrible trumpet player. "

" I'm a trumpet player, and I sing jazz. "

" I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa. "

" I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano. "

" I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw. "

" I played the coronet first, and then I upgraded to the trumpet. First song I learned on there was 'Hot Cross Buns.' "

" I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think. "

" 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. "

" I played trumpet for Noah and the Whale a couple of times. "

" I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet. "

" I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. "

" I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight. "

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