You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is.

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.

I lived by a bay for a while, and I shucked oysters. Some packing things. You know, just whatever odd job you can find whenever you're moving around. I never really cared much for the franchise kind of work, so I'd try to find things that I considered to be a little more honorable.

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.