Brass Instrument Quotes

I got a brand new flugelhorn today in this gorgeous case, it's beautiful.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true. In fact, the neighbors threatened to ask my mother to move once, you know.

I played French horn, and I certainly do miss it. I miss it. I wish I had the time to keep up with it. It's like exercising: You have to keep it up, especially the muscles in your lips to deal with the French horn.

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

I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, 'What do you want to play?' I said the drums, and my mother said, 'No, you don't. You don't want to play the drums.' So I said, 'Maybe the trumpet would be cool.' And my mother said, 'I don't think so.' And then the clarinet was handed to me.

Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.

Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.

I do a mean mouth trumpet.

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

I don't play the tuba.

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility and grandeur to the highest degree; it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst. Directed by the will of the master, the trombones can chant like a choir of priests, threaten, utter gloomy sighs, a mournful lament, or a bright hymn of glory; they can break forth into awe-inspiring cries and awaken the dead or doom the living with their fearful voices.

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

I've got a lot of respect for tuba players, just carrying that thing around.

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

As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around 13 or 14 years old, they took me off the bugle and put me in the little brass band.

I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.

Most people don't even know what a trombone is. It's not that popular as a front instrument... I picked it up and fell in love with it as a kid. It's a difficult instrument, but I like doing things that seem impossible.

I'm a terrible trumpet player.

My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.

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.

I love the French horn.

French horn can be very epic, and at the same time, very dark and moving.

I am a trombone player, and that was my first instrument.