They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.
My parents actually wanted me to join the service.
I started working at clubs when I was sixteen, which is young. I would not want my kid doing that, but I did, and that's how it went.
Our target customers are people in their 20s. Old people wanted to be 21 again, and young people wanted to be 21 forever.
I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.
I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.
You cannot go to someone who is 65 or 70 years of age and tell 'em, 'This program that you retired relying on is now being pulled out from underneath you.'