There are no miracles on Mondays.
From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.
By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.
I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.
As in mysterious and transcendent union the Divine takes into itself the human in the person of Jesus, and eternity is blended with time; we, trusting Him, and yielding our hearts to Him, receive into our poor lives an incorruptible seed, and for us the soul-satisfying realities that abide forever mingle with and are reached through the shadows that pass away.
To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.
I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to. '
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.