A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others. |
Art and I played more when we were in San Quentin together than when we were on the outside. We had a great band there with Frank Butler, Dupree Bolton, Nathaniel Meeks and some guys who learned how to play while they were in prison. |
Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that. |
Certainly, as expected, there were no real surprises here. |
I was an admirer of Art Pepper even before I went to California, when he was still in Kenton's band. His playing is joyous, great. |
I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life. |
It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians. |
Some analysts seemed to think the company would have an upside surprise, ... But they reported right in line with what the consensus was. |
Sometimes insiders get it right, and sometimes they don't, |
That would be the easy conclusion to draw, but I don't know that's the fact. |
The company is suffering from a combination of industry issues of weaker volume and high levels of bad debt, aggravated by weak cash flow. |
The good news is that with this they've cleared the plate of most of their legal issues and can now focus on operations. |
They're at a point where they have to find the (capital spending) dollars to remain competitive. |
While in prison, we had an excellent pianist named Jimmy Bunn, who also recorded with Bird. Jimmy would play a small accordion, and he, Art and I would play all day, nothing but ballads. |