When conditions change, stay on your feet, improvise, adapt and overcome.

My father told me something once when I was a wee lad with a Trumpet, trying to audition into the Youth Symphony Orchestra and up against high school and college age trumpet players. He said, "There will always be room for the best. So practice hard to be the best."

I passed the audition and at the time, became one of the youngest ever picked.


--Mac