Compatible Quotes: The Unforgiving Instrument

The trumpet is an extremely difficult instrument. It feels and reacts differently to the player each and every day—Allen Vizzutti

Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins—Dizzy Gillespie

You pick up the horn, put it to your chops and the son of a bitch says: Screw You—Roy Eldridge

I have never seen a country where they worry so much about their chops as they do in America—Maurice Andre