Percussion Prodigy Gifts

"Home school marching band"

'I play it to kill time.'

Marimba

Impressing dad.

Felix Mendelssohn

Bad Timbre: the world's first Garage Philharmonic Orchestra

"Michael, your father and I are worried that you're awfully young to be singing the blues."

I love my Timpani

Triangle

'Wash your hands, it's time for your piano lessons.'

"I haven't started playing the violin. I hide my vegetables in here!"

"This next one is my own quirky rendition of Berlioz's 'Symphonie Fantastique,' Movement 5, 'Dream of a Witches' Sabbath.'"

Jazz is Invented

Chano Pozo,

"We tried 'Baby Mozart,' but he prefers 'Baby John Cage.'"

"Would you mind doing that in the other room?"

'I have a feeling one day when he grows up he'll be an artist of some kind.'

"The Just Me Band"

Timpani.

'After hours of rehearsing together, little Judy Barlow is going to play 'Three Blind Mice' while her father screams, 'Keep that racket down, will ya?''

Ginger Baker.

Take a bow!

'Teenage Beethoven.'

'What did I tell you about playing the piano in the house?'

The Piano Dreams Of Home

'Either play faster or get out the band.'

Violinist.

'You win. Go out and play.'

Franz Liszt

"Harold, not only was it perfect, It was perfectissimo!!"

I love Marimba

"The guy's a natural!"

"Singing makes me self-conscious."

A boy who doesn't want to put down his drum while he prays

"Tip my boy."