Think About How Rare It

We Fight Our Way Through The Massed And Leveled Collective Safe Taste Of The Top 40, Just Looking For A Little Something We Can Call Our Own. But When We Find It And Jam The Radio To Hear It Again It Isn't Just Ours -- It Is A Link To Thousands Of Others Who Are Sharing It With Us. As A Matter Of A Single Song This Might Mean Very Little; As Culture, As A Way Of Life, You Can't Beat It.

What’s The Impulse Behind Art? It’s Saying In Whatever Language Is The Language Of Your Work, “if I Could Move You As Much As It Moved Me … If I Can Move Anyone A Tenth As Much As That Moved Me, If I Can Spark The Same Sense Of Mystery And Awe And Surprise As That Sparked In Me, Well That’s Why I Do What I Do.”

I Learned That When Something Just Has To Be Said To Move The Discussion Along, Or Broaden It Or Deepen It, If I Can Just Keep My Mouth Shut For Five Minutes A Student Will Say It. So For Me A Lot Of Teaching Is About Keeping My Mouth Shut.

I Never Could Understand - It Was Impossible For Me To Get My Head Around - What The Furor Was, What The Sense Of Betrayal And Anger And Rage Was About Bob Dylan's Beginning To Perform With A Band, To Play Rock-and-roll, To Get On The Radio.

No Failure In America, Whether Of Love Or Money, Is Ever Simple; It Is Always A Kind Of Betrayal, Of A Mass Of Shadowy, Shared Hopes.