Fats Domino – I’m Gonna Be A Wheel Someday
„When I was 21 years old decided that I wanted to become a great artist. I’d won several art competitions when I was a child and was considered something of a prodigy (I could draw a train that looked like a train when I was 3 years old) and had taken art courses and studied privately all my growing years(…). My first act of rebellious independence was when I decided to be an artist and ran off to Mexico for 3 months to discover myself, and marijuana. When I came back through New Orleans on my way to New York, I had sprouted a scraggly beard and was talking hip beat talk and my father made me stay at a motel rather than destroy my mother’s image of me. He did, however, buy a small painting for $75 so that I would be able to buy a train ticket to New York.“
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Gewöhnlich glaubt der Mensch - wenn er nur Worte hört - es müsse sich dabei doch auch was denken lassen.