Trumpet Players Quotes

My mum loves jazz, and together we listen to loads of Chet Baker back home.

Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.

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 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.

I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.

Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

In New Orleans, you can pitch a rock and hit a great trumpeter.