“When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.”
Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.
What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.
I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
