If you think its hard to:

-Carry 45 lbs. of dead weight on one shoulder and stand up perfectly straight
-Practice in heat and preform in snow
-Get along w/ 200 ppl you really love (no, really)
-Stand in close proximity with 20 guys hitting drums with everything they've got while bobbing your head like your into it
-Be one of those 20 guys
-Wear 11pound wool uniforms in 100 degree heat
-Read your music and watch the director intently while exhaling on cue, coordinating your fingers and values perfectly with your tongue, tapping your foot, and listening rapidly to the other players around you so that you can make one of 45 tunning adjustments!
-Maintain perfect posture while holding an instrument, playing it and running the 100 yard dash
-Understand the difference between "as loud as possible" and "just a little bit louder"
-Ride the yellow dogs while the football team rides the Greyhound buses
-Sell band candy a dozen times a year to the same people
-Wear those 1930s Q-Tips hats and chill in public
-Play Michael Jackson's greatest hits on oboe
-Listen to a bad tuba section
-Listen to a good tuba section
-Pay more for your instrument than your car
-Wear those ridiculous monkey suits while your parents make it a Kodak moment
-Remember to show up for a preformance with all the little things you might need, like white gloves,valve oil, slide grease, extra reeds, YOUR INSTRUMENT- you know, the little things

If you think its hard to do all this
then maybe you're not tough enough to be
in the band!


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