“I usually don't think of anyone ever suspecting that I might be someone who'd cry at stuff. I cry at movies all the time. And sometimes it really pisses me off because I hate it when they're just jerking my chain and it's just like completely manipulative.” ThinkingSometimesMightHateStuffCryI HateChainsManipulative Author:Richard Hell
“Nothing lasts in New York. Everything's always changing in really obvious ways.” WayLastsNew YorkObvious Author:Richard Hell
“There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about malls around the edges and suburbs. That was definitely a loss, because everything just gets homogenized. You can't tell where you are, it's all the same.” LeftLossCitiesTownsEdgesWhere You AreSuburbsMallsHometownKentucky Author:Richard Hell
“we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.” StillsStatesSeemsNew YorkBuildingEmpiresShiftingEmpire State BuildingEmpire StateChryslerChrysler Building Author:Richard Hell
“I wasn't so interested in merchandising through CD or whatever form. I wasn't really so aggressive about promoting my own work. I had my recordings from the past, but I never thought someone was interested in releasing it.” PastFormMy OwnAggressivePromotingCdsMerchandising Author:Yoshi Wada
“I don't want to release things too similar to each other. I've been working on selecting something different from my other work.” WantDifferentRelease Author:Yoshi Wada
“At the beginning, I felt sort of reluctant about my music from my past. But in the last couple of years, I felt good about what I did in the past. The way I see my work, time passes from the time I performed or recorded a work. When I look at it now, 25 years or 30 years ago, if I see that it has value today, I will agree to release it.” IfsWayYearsLooksTodayLastsPastValuesFeltCoupleYears AgoAgreeReleaseReluctantMy PastTime Passes Author:Yoshi Wada
“I was an ignored guy and have been for many years. But I suppose I became well-known after being ignored. After the release of the CDs and LPs, especially the LPs, people like it. I was impressed.” PeopleYearsWellsHas BeensGuyKnownReleaseImpressedIgnoredWell KnownCdsBeing Ignored Author:Yoshi Wada
“I would sing myself with a tambura and just regular a cappella singing and practicing. I did that around 1973 and 1974, and I finally developed my own style of singing.” My OwnStyleSingingMy Own Style Author:Yoshi Wada
“I got into one of the Scottish classical styles called piobaireachd, which is a very old music that started around the 1700s or something. I really got into this music. After that, I started to compose bagpipe music in my notations. Then I started building bagpipes by myself, and then I started to perform with the instrument myself in the 1980s.” StyleBuildingInstrumentsScottishOld MusicBagpipes Author:Yoshi Wada