Dauerte / Took Freude / Delight Gestartet / Started Großartig / Great Jahre / Years Johnny Johnny Cash Kasse / Cash Mitte / Middle Nacht / Night Nervig / Annoying Publikum / Audience Schlagen / Banging Spielen / Playing Vor Jahren / Years Ago
This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.
Playing solo with an audience for an hour and 30 minutes without a break means I have to, as the jazz cats say, get into the shed and work on my chops.
Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore.
To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.
I don't see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope that the acting side of things grows.
I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in.
I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'
I started playing Madden back in 1993 because that was the first year I actually made it into the game and that was a big thrill. When you're in Madden, you've made it, baby.
Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like 'Brothers in Arms' and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.
