It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.
“I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.”
“I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive.”