In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.
“The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.”
“Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.”