Quote Originally Posted by effingawwesome View Post
I just finished my first semester of classes for my Music Education degree with instrumental certification K-12. I am seriously, seriously seriously considering transferring from my current school to the University of North Texas and switching my major to Jazz Studies.

If I don't end up going there after my sophomore year then I'll finish out my degree at my current school and work for a few years on a cruise ship playing lead trumpet in their house band to save money. Then I want to go to UNT to get a masters in jazz studies and an artist's certificate in trumpet (pretty much is a PhD in trumpet) from them.

I would like to be a studio musician, but really I would be happy if I got to play in a jazz band to make a living. Hell I would spend the rest of my life on a cruise ship if that was the only gig I could get. After a long career of playing I want to teach at the university level teaching trumpet and the school's jazz program.

After all that and I get really old I want to retire somewhere in/on the Mediterranean. Like Dizzy said, "Some days you play and you win. Some days you play and the horn wins. Then you get good enough to where you always win. Then you die and the horn wins."
That's the first time I've heard anything like that.