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“I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.”

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Author:Tommy Lee

“I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.”

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Author:Kenny G

“From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.”

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Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin the right notes or the wrong notes.”

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Author:Bobby Keys

“I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional gig and I was going home taking a shower and heading to downtown Hawaii, Waikiki.”

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Author:Eric Hernandez

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

Source: William Shakespeare

“I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.”

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Author:Quincy Jones

“At one point I had dreams of being in the school band, but I didn't play an instrument that qualified me, and that was a problem. I always had fantasies to be part of that, but I did take my piano lessons quite seriously.”

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Author:Paul Smith

“I asked all through third, fourth and fifth grade, when they were asking kids to be in the band, to be in the school band. But they wouldn't let me do it.”

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Author:Jon Gordon

“We had a great educator [in the school band], a man named Larry Laurenzano. He was tough, but we knew that he loved us. And that was the beginning of playing music with people and really being inspired and having fun and being in a community.”

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Author:Jon Gordon

“We still talk about [school band]. Almost 40 years later. It's like people are talking about, "Man we need to have a morning band reunion".”

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Author:Jon Gordon

“Walk down Forest Ave to Joey's Pizza like we used to do after performances, which doesn't exist anymore. We had a sense of community [in the school band].”

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Author:Jon Gordon

“Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community. No rule says that only the local banker or car dealer can organize the program to raise supplemental funds for the public library or send the high school band on a well-earned special trip. Participating in community affairs, with time more than dollars, is good business from day one. It gets your name around, adds to your distinctiveness, and, best of all, makes you an attractive employer (which is the key to sustained success).”

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“Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.”

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Author:Jim Henson

“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?'”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?”

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Author:Patti LuPone

“Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.”

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Author:Adrian Belew