The red-jacketed band stirred to life. The first musician raised his trumpet. The trombone dipped. The drumstick rose. Lea lowered her clarinet. It had been Brent's idea not to have their insturments rise and fall in unison. The staggered motion gave it a more exciting rhythm.

~ Paul Fleischman

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She watched him take the trumpet from its case and fit the mouthpiece. She watched as he raised it to his lips and then, so suddenly, from that tiny cup of metal against his flesh, the sound would burst out like a glorious, brilliant knife dividing the air. And the little room would reverberate and the flies, jolted out of their torpor, would buzz round and round as if riding the swirling notes.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

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It’s awkward to wake up one day to see the trumpet working hard to lead in the shoes of the microphone. You can only lead where you can function better!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

~ J. Donald Walters

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There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

~ George Galloway

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Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

~ William Christopher Handy

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