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I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

The trumpet is forceful.

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.

I'm a terrible trumpet player.

I didn't sing, but I did play the drums.

Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

People live their lives through melodies. If you can't sing, then music is worthless.