Let The Critics Criticize And Let The

This Is Our Bandstand. If You Don't Want To Play, Get Up Off The Instrument And Leave.

Only A Few Act - The Rest Of Us Reap The Benefits Of Their Risk.

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?'

I Think That When The Education System Started To Be Dismantled During The First Great Depression In The 1930s, We Didn't Recover From That.

I Get So Much From Having The Opportunity To Interface With The Younger People And To Bring Information To Them And To Represent Our Culture And Our Way Of Life. The Feeling And The Warmth And The Love, It's Unbelievable. The Type Of Exchange That Goes On Between Students And Teachers Or Visiting People Who Are Doing Master Classes, And Not Just When They're Musicians. Even General Classes, When The Students Are Not Necessarily Musicians.