I never was a very good singer.

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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

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You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

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Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

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The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.

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So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

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