Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
I had no musical training at all.
I didn't start making music in order to be famous.
I've never finished anything by Dickens.
You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.
I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.