Archives for October 16, 2018

From 2008:

Time: near the end of a leisurely dinner. Place: Restaurant 15 Main, Narrowsburg, New York. Frank Sinatra’s recording of “Thanks for the Memory” is playing in the background.

SHE I never liked that song.

HE Well—

SHE Don’t say it—I already know what you’re going to say. “Well, I like it.” Of course you like it. You’re got more in common with your parents’ generation than with ours.

HE What do you mean? I know twice as much about rock and roll as you do.

SHE Yeah, but you never hung out in bars and danced with girls when you were in high school….

Read the whole thing here.

“I don’t do autobiographical. I don’t really approve of that. I never thought about it until young people started getting onstage, and it’s supposed to be a dance concert and they kept telling us about their horrible mother or what a hard time they had and all of this true stuff, and I went: Oh, keep it to yourself. No, I don’t do that. I make up dreams.”

Paul Taylor (quoted in Gia Kourlas, “Inside the Wild Mind of Paul Taylor,” New York Times, September 4, 2018)