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Passion For Music
That's why your passion is so important-that's one thing that no one else can do that you can do because you love it more than anyone else.
About Irvin
- Says that playing trumpet growing up didn't always make him the most popular person; people had their doubts.
- He had a passion, could listen to and play trumpet all day everyday, so he didn't care about financial success, the feelings of his peers.
- Says success is all relative; if he set a goal to make $400 one month and he made $500, he was on top of the world.
- Parts of his family wanted him to have a tangible career, a degree, rather than pursuing his dream.
- Father had taught him to play the trumpet, but was disappointed when he dropped out of college.
- In 2009, he won a Grammy and was appointed to the National Endowment of the Arts by President Obama.
- Once he had a Grammy, got his own apartment, his family started to come around to his choices.
- Lives by a saying his mother taught him: "Blessed is he who gets paid for what he would do for free."