Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.
It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.
I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.
The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.
Listen to my story and everything will come out true
I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.
We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated fields it will manifest itself. A nation that loses its forward thrust is in danger, and one of the most effective ways to retain that thrust is to keep exploring possibilities. The sense of exploration is intimately bound up with human resolve, and for a nation to believe that it is still committed to a forward motion is to ensure its continuance.
A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.
So to be standing here, this was really, truly, honestly never part of anything we even imagined in our wildest dreams.
The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.