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

That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet..

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy..

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet..

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day..

The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility..

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes..

affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will..

Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it..