How can you have a rock n' roll circus without a midget?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.
If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four years old. That's when the body is most limber to learn those acrobatics.
I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.
When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.
There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.
Damn everything but the circus.
I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.
I started performing in 1950 at the age of 16 when I joined the Burton Lester's Midgets as a performer. Shortly after, I became a DJ with Mecca Organization before joining Billy Smart's Circus as a clown and shadow Ringmaster.
On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.
When you go backstage at a Bruce Springsteen show, you don't see a circus.