Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.
Billy WestI'm not angry. Everybody thinks I'm so angry because I have a point of view. They're expecting me to just be all Smucker's Jam.
Billy WestRobert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
Billy WestI don't have that much of an ego where it's like "How dare you, you can't do something without me."
Billy WestI was basically a sound engineer, I produced radio shows and stuff and had to splice tape in the old days. And you knew a sloppy edit when you heard it, because I had enough of them. But that stuff takes the magic out of it, if you need to know everything. Then you become omnivorous. Everything is tender, and as soon as you burn it up, you're on to the next.
Billy West