My first job at Gleason's Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with overtime at the automobile plant.
If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about.
The Man Upstairs is taking care of me.
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
What kind of shorts I wear has nothing to do with music.
I directed my music to the teen-agers. I was 30 years old when I did 'Maybellene.' My school days had long been over when I did 'School Day,' but I was thinking of them.
