That's a nightmare, ... Somebody will point out to the aged widow of some composer that they heard a snatch of (his) song. It can take time.
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They asked how much current music I liked, ... Well, I loved Wilson Pickett. I liked Cajun fiddler Doug Kershaw, 'The Alligator Man.' I wondered if there was more music like that. But the fact I had all these people on still surprises me. For some reason, I was accepted by the rock folk. Maybe they understood that they and I were on the same side of the Richard Nixon question.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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