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Folks, I have had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I will see you down the road. |
| by Brent Musburger |
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.- Henry Fielding
The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.
Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.
