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• Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

  William Cowper

  Gossip, Ears, Contention

  William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.212

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• The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.

  Edmund Spenser

  Spring, Cuckoos, Messengers

  Edmund Spenser, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1814). “Spenser's Sonnets”, p.38

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• There was never any question about Scholesy's quality as a footballer. He was known as the little ginger magician in the youth team. Some reckon he's the best United player of the modern era, and there's a case for saying that. You don't hear him blowing his own trumpet, though - he just gets on with his job. He's the real deal.

  Steve Bruce

  Jobs, Team, Real

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• [Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with the band, you know. But Monk would just sit there like this. And all of a sudden there'd be a pause from all the trumpets and everything and Monk would go 'plink!' like that. And everybody would go 'Yeah!

  Ray Brown

  Mean, Player, Piano

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• Nobody else even approaches the trumpet like [Sweets Edison] does: Never too much and always plenty. He's the greatest trumpet player to play along with singers. He exactly knows how to play with you, how to answer you about what you just sang ... On top of that, he has some great sense of humor, both as a musician and as a man. Every time I see him, I'm laughing so much. Sweets is impeccable and incomparable.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Sweet, Player, Men

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• [We need] someone like Don Sickler, who is an amazing trumpet player and who is also a publisher and amazing producer and composer and arranger. There's a lot of ways you can make a contribution.

  Jon Gordon

  Player, Needs, Way

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• Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.

  Susan Faludi

  Self, America, Promise

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. One of my earliest memories is him kind of forcing a guitar on all my brothers and me. You know, "You have to practice three hours a day!" I hated guitar at the time. I kind of picked up trumpet to spite him.

  Zach Condon

  Brother, Memories, Dad

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in, the Church of Christ, encouraged a capella, but didn't allow musical instruments, so even though my parents allowed me to play trumpet in the band, and I was pretty good at it, it had this baggage.

  Gary Panter

  Growing Up, Play, Long

  Interview with David Jacob Kramer, believermag.com. June 1, 2009.

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• From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.

  Gertrude Stein

  Progress, Age, Would Be

  Written in 1895 as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College. Published as "Form and Intelligibility" in the Radcliffe Manuscripts, 1949.

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• [The Golden Notebook] was not a trumpet for Women's Liberation. It described many female emotions of aggression, hostility, resentment. It put them into print. Apparently what many women were thinking, feeling, experiencing, came as a great surprise. Instantly a lot of very ancient weapons were unleashed, the main ones, as usual, being on the theme of "She is unfeminine", "She is a man-hater".

  Doris Lessing

  Notebook, Men, Thinking

  Doris May Lessing (1989). “The Doris Lessing Reader”, Jonathan Cape

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• The soul of the river had entered my soul, And the gathered power of my soul was moving So swiftly, it seemed to be at rest Under cities of cloud and under Spheres of silver and changing worlds Until I saw a flash of trumpets Above the battlements over Time!

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Moving, Clouds, Cities

  Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.185, Prestwick House Inc

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• When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Men, Sound

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• When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it.

  Ada Leverson

  Depressing, Real, Men

  Ada Leverson (2012). “Love at Second Sight”, p.100, tredition

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• I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.

  Debbie Harry

  Mean, Thinking, Wind

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. July 9, 2007.

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• My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.

  Elvis Costello

  Stars, Dad, Father

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christian, Character, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.138

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• You'll be riding along in an automobile. You'll be the driver perhaps. You're a Christian. There'll be several people in the automobile with you, maybe someone who is not a Christian. When the trumpet sounds you and the other born-again believers in that automobile will be instantly caught away - you will disappear, leaving behind only your clothes and physical things that cannot inherit eternal life. That unsaved person or persons in the automobile will suddenly be startled to find the car suddenly somewhere crashes.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Religious, Humor

  "Nuclear War and the Second Coming of Christ". Book by Jerry Fatwell, 1983.

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• The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Teacher, Prayer, Law

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.165

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• He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

  William Shakespeare

  Pride, Glasses, Proud

  1602 Agamemnon.Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc.3, l.153-5.

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• …So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

  John Dryden

  Sky, Crumbling, Lasts

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day' (1687) 'Grand Chorus'

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• Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Country, Humility, Pride

  "Pieces of Eight". Book by Sydney J. Harris, 1982.

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

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wall, Fall, Should

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.112, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• ...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I hear it: I make a stroke with the bow: the symphony begins in the depths, or springs with a bound onto the stage. If the old imbeciles hadn’t discovered only the false significance of Self, we wouldn’t have to now sweep away those millions of skeletons which have been piling up the products of their one-eyed intellect since time immemorial, and claiming themselves to be their authors!

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Spring, Skeletons, Self

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• In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Horse, Children, Hobbies

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Attack Upon 'Christendom'”

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