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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."
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"I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time."

"Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress."

"Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something."

"My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress."

"I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced."

"When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'"

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

"I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do."
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