Quote of the Day (Paul McCartney, on Early Concert Mistakes)

“When we first started out, I was terrified of doing anything wrong onstage. I got to learn, though, that people don’t mind. In fact, they kind of like it. People go, ‘I was at the show where he made a mistake!’”—English composer and rock ‘n’ roll legend Sir Paul McCartney, quoted by Hardeep Phull, “Paul McCartney Plays for the Kids at Frank Sinatra School,” New York Post, Oct. 9, 2013

I wasn’t that big a fan of Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles work in the Seventies, but I’m curious to see the recent documentary about that period, Man on the Run. 

It sounds like, more than half a century after he went on his own, we may be learning new, even surprising, things about one of the most significant forces in popular music in the 20^th century.

Quote of the Day (Suzanne Vega, on Explaining Her Songs to Audiences)

“I’ve had my moments where I’ve maybe blurted out more than I intended to, but most of the time if I don’t talk to the audience then it becomes a very uncomfortable show. My songs are kinda dense, and a lot of the time people wouldn’t know what I was talking about. So I learned that it’s better to tell them a bit about it. Not all the songs are my own particular stories, so it’s not like I’m having some sort of cathartic experience when I sing them.”—Singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega quoted in Henry Yates, “Welcome Back… Suzanne Vega,” Classic Rock Magazine, February 2006