I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.
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I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.
I don't play the tuba.
I've got a lot of respect for tuba players, just carrying that thing around.
If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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