"But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness"
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"But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness"
"If you have a tone like mine that is recognizable. No matter what I play, when you hear my tone you can tell it's me."
"Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me.It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'."