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• Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who now will be my rewarder.’.... So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

  John Bunyan

  Father, Skills, Giving

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2 (Mr Valiant-for-Truth)

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• As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.

  John Knox

  Blow, Office, Touching

  "World Studies for Christian Schools". Book by Terri Koontz, 2000.

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• The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-workings. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt serve thyself by every sense, Of service which thou renderest.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Life, Strong

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• And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few.

  William Wordsworth

  Hands, Soul, Path

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.203

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• I put myself in the studio and I really made sure to say, 'Well, if I would normally reach for a trumpet, why don't I reach for the next nearest instrument instead?'

  Zach Condon

  Next, Made, Instruments

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• Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds, Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat? Have I not heard great ordinance in the field, And Heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? Have I not in a pitched battle heard Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang? And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire? Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs. Grumio: For he fears none.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Blow, Boys

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.33, Penguin

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• Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in hell, when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle.

  Charles Studd

  Jesus, Long, Heaven

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• Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Weapons, Revolution, Tomorrow

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• The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Marine, Hymns, Firsts

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• You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Tubas, Way, Lows

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• 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.

  Susan Orlean

  Dedication, Tunnels, Digging

  "Prune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2010.

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

  Norman Wisdom

  Play, Piano, Horny

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.

  Toni Morrison

  Fall, Angel, Godly

  "Tar Baby". Book by Toni Morrison, 1981.

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• If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers without tidings, a comfort for infidels, jubilant joys to the devil, and an offense to God.

  Robert E. Lee

  Friday, Sleep, Light

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• 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.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Player, Rocks, Cities

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• Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wall, Fall, Limits

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

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• They come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope have grown so thin And all our vaunted innocence Has withered in this endless frost) That promise little recompense For all we risk, for all we've lost.

  Mira Grant

  Wall, Men, Risk

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• He wanted us to play whatever we played in the most characteristic and appropriate style. Even it was the theme from 'The Godfather,' you needed to play that then the way that a Hollywood producer would expect it to be played. Whether it was that or the posthorn solo from Mahler's Symphony No. 3, he would expect that to be played in the way that Leonard Bernstein wanted to hear it. In retrospect, I think it was a sensational way to teach this particular group of students. By the time you graduated you could absolutely read anything with any trumpet.

  Manny Laureano

  Thinking, Play, Symphony

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• Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashipn the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Echoes, Voice, Dwelling

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• 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

  Father, Years, Band

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• From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.

  Thomas Paine

  Cheer, Freedom, Blow

  Thomas Paine (1850). “Miscellaneous poems of that noble of nature, Thomas Paine”, p.11

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• In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after

  Al Hirt

  Player, Long, Stylist

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

  Jackson Browne

  Eight

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• I don't think there's anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower. For me that's because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that's such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life.

  Helen Mirren

  Life Lesson, Flower, Sunshine

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• Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat.

  E. Merrill Root

  Life, Stars, Home

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