I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry.
“In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.”
“I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college.”