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People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.
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The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
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It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
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Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
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My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.
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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.
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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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You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents.
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I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.
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I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
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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.
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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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I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.
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Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.
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