But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

Categories are a drag. It's groove music. We don't just jam, the songs have parts. We don't just go off into oblivion. There is a beginning, middle and end with room for fooling around in the middle.

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.

I've always called my music old time mountain music or old time country music. I've never really called my music bluegrass.

The classical music world is so snobbish.