Quote of the week

There was an interview with classic rock 'n roller Dion (Runaround Sue, The Wanderer) in the NY Times where he tosses off a great line. He's talking about how John Hammond turned him on to Robert Johnson (which Hammond had done for Bob Dylan, too):
"Hammond said, 'We sold 25,000 copies of this record by word of mouth,' " Dion recalled. "I was selling a million copies of 'Ruby Baby' at the time, and I thought, 'Gee, he seems excited,' so I listened to it and it got me excited, too. Some of the guys I played it for couldn't hear it, but I heard it. It's the naked cry of the human heart apart from God, wanting to feel at home."

Wow. That line of Dion's sums up a lot of art -- from Ingmar Bergman to J.M. Coetzee.