No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.
Tony ViscontiIn the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Tony ViscontiI kind of liked the method of the seventies where they would throw a little bit of money at a hundred different groups - not millions of dollars per group, but, you know, a few thousand. Throw them in the studio, and if five of those groups came out with a hit record it would be money well spent.
Tony ViscontiWe always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.
Tony Visconti