“In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.”
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Nostalgic Quotes — page 136 of 136
“I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.”
“High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.”
“My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.”
“We used to have superb public schools. I guess we don't anymore, but, boy, the public schools were really something and I am a product of those in Indianapolis.”
“This had been going on at Shortridge since 1906. My parents had also worked on the Shortridge Daily Echo. The way it came into being was that when they built Shortridge High School, they had a vocational department and they had a print shop.”
“I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.”
“I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.”
“I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.”
“The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.”
“I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.”
“I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day.”
“I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories”
“When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.”
“Oh, absolutely. James Caan was the first movie star I'd ever met, much less worked with. He was an important person to me and my brothers and Wes. Bottle Rocket was the first movie for all of us. As you know, back then, [Caan] was having some career changes, I think.”
“Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.”
“I didn't grow up in a mom-and-pop, Ozzie and Harriet type of environment, but who did.”
“Of course, Im older now. Im in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for Car Wheels or Essence or whatever. Different things were going on.”