I Don't Think I Went A Year

God Has A Way Of Telling You When To Change Your Strings.

Ian And Sylvia, Who, When You Got Right Down To It, Were Essentially Country And Western Singers. I Just Recorded His Four Strong Winds. It's A Wonderful Song.

My Uncle And My Grandfather Both Worked In The Brooklyn Navy Yard.

One Of My Earliest Memories... I Knew Three Full Verses Of The Star Spangled Banner When I Was Seven Or Eight Years Old. And One Of The Nuns Discovered This Phenomenon And I Was Actually Sent Around From Classroom To Classroom To Do The Whole Thing.

There Is An Apprenticeship System In Jazz. You Teach The Young Ones. So Even If The Musicians Weren't Personally That Likable, They Felt An Obligation To Help The Younger Musicians.