Sidney Lanier
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"Sidney Clopton Lanier" was an United States/American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army/Confederate army, worked on a blockade running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis), taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer. As a poet he used dialects. He became a flautist and sold poems to publications. He eventually became a university professor and is known for his adaptation of musical meter to poetry. Many schools, other structures and two lakes are named for him.

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Many students felt violated by what happened. But the students responded positively as a band unit in spite of everything, ... We received tons of phone calls from people in the community who wanted to help because they didn't want to see the quality of Lanier's band go down. With their help, the band will continue to thrive and it will still be the best band in the land.

We worked hard on that, ... We had two weeks to prepare for this.

Music is love in search of a word.

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

We didn't really do anything special. We just tried to show them something different from last year, ... We mixed a few things up, but it was base football. We moved a little bit across the line.