Most Of What I Listen To Now

If I Do A Piece In My Living Room, If I Practice It - And I Have The Tapes To Prove This - It's Not Going To Be As Good As Doing The Same Piece In Front Of An Audience.

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.

If You Look At Music, You See Theme, Variation, You See Symmetry, Asymmetry, You See Structure, And These Are Related To Skills In The Real World.

And Then Adds With A Laugh, 'but In Retrospect I Think He May Have Been More Sophisticated Than We Were.'

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.