Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.
There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.
I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was always more comfortable writing fiction.
When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.
After the 'Last Waltz' concert, it just seemed very healthy to me to put making a record as far out of my mind as I possibly could.
I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar player and some other guys.
If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.
I thought of a lot of people from the same era when I was making a lot of records that had continued making a lot of records. A lot of it didn't seem terribly inspired.
People think I left The Band and spoiled this whole thing, and that's not what happened. Nobody broke up The Band. Nobody ever said, 'That's it, we're done.'
Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles.
Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.
I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. You will always be successful.
I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.
I don't like to be a preacher or anything, but the one thing that I've learned is that you truly are what you eat.
I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.
You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do but you don't have to be arrogant about it.
I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.
If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.
I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.
I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.
