"I don't really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me. I know a whole lot of musicians, artists out there who hears the compliments and thinks "wow, I must have been really great" and so they get fat and satisfied and they get lost and forget about their actual talent and start living in another world.Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts."
Dick Cavett interview (1969)
Photo: the legendary Gered Mankowitz
Astounding to believe its been 56 yerars!
ReplyDelete56 years since I came home for my tea and my Dad (who'd been watching the news) informed me 'Some guitarist has died', and he couldn't remember the name. I had to go half a mile to my friends house who informed it was Jimi. Was - am still am - gutted...................
ReplyDeleteWow that's a great anecdote Dave! Similarly . . . . . I fear and the more I learn I think he was suffering from nervous exhaustion at the end and was not in a good space but to exit the scene like that was heartbreaking and can you imagine what he would have gone on to compose and play as studios caught up with his interstellar talent . . . ? Tragic and still gutted too
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