Karen Carpenter was just a singularly amazing singer. There was just not anybody like her.
The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.
Both economics and politics are false sciences.
The speaker suggests that both economics and politics may lack objectivity or fail to provide accurate predictions.
Oklahoma was a dry state, and consequently, there was no liquor laws. And I was able to take advantage of that by playing in nightclubs at the age of 14. It was real handy.
I don't think there's any danger of me playing Indian music. However, I did a song of George Harrison's 'Beware of Darkness' that was kind of like that. That was an illusion. I was playing that on a thumbtack piano, and Jim Gordon was playing tablas. He's an amazing player. That was as close to India as I ever got.
I had a band with David Gates. There was just a lot of opportunity at that time. But I left for Los Angeles the week after I graduated high school, and I actually left to try to get into the advertising business. That was really why I went out to L.A. My music career was almost an accident.