I had to have everything…because it was competitive when I grew up. MR: Do you get really deep into bands the way people are with the Grateful Dead, for instance?ĭG: Growing up, it was The Who. Then once in a while when I want guilty pleasures, I put on Sirius Hits 1. We just drove to Connecticut and back and I played Alt Nation from SiriusXM, Sirius XMU, the Pulse and then I put WFUV on for a little bit. And I love long drives because I can listen to music over and over and over again.ĭG: I do, I do. I don't want to know who the lawyer is, who the manager is. I still have the people that work with us here make me up CDs and I play them randomly to listen to music. If there's a very important sports program, I'll put it on. We have a Como Audio single music system which is excellent too.īut number one way to listen is in the car. I also have a brand of headphones I love from B&W which our team gave me for my birthday. It is important to listen to it on a laptop. Listening for work is also for pleasure but I need to listen as fans and consumers do. So even though I've got a pair of amazing speakers from Poland which my friend Troy Germano designed in my house I save those for pleasure. MR: How do you listen to music? Are you an audiophile?ĭG: Well, I try and listen as the regular person does when it is for work. We are doing a French-English collaboration with our new artist, Patrick Martin, and a very popular singer in France called Adé and I think I listened to the new mix somewhere between 12 and 15 times. And I think that's a mistake, but I have to do it. I will read a book even if by the middle it’s mediocre. When more magazines were in print, I had to read every one of them. I can't call it an addiction, but I was a big magazine reader. ![]() This can be a problem when I don’t let things ripen.ĭG: I share that with you. MR: Sometimes, I will want to just finish something up and check it off my list rather than wait. One of the worst questions I’ve ever been asked is, "How many marathons did you finish?" Of course, I finished them all!Īnd I think it's a metaphor of what's wrong with the world. I listened to the whole side and I waited for the applause. We played the entire side on vinyl, and it was a beautiful way to leave before we got on the plane. And he said, "But I'll do it."ĭG: We were leaving Florida the other day and I wanted to hear the whole side of Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert. MR: Is there anyone who you've taken a picture with who didn't want to take a picture with you?ĭG: Yeah, Steve Martin wasn't happy. I'm so happy he captured it in his own awkward, crude way what was going on there.īut I think gratuitous selfies and lack of focus is not good. We're married now 41 years, and my uncle Joe, may he rest in peace, he had his old Super 8 camera, and he shot about seven minutes of film. And I've had people secretly saying, "I really appreciate you doing that." And I think I prefer a candid picture to preserve a moment, and then I send them to people and they're so happy.Īnd I always tell people, "I know I'm annoying you, but you're going to thank me one day." And I've never ever been yelled at because of that. MR: Do you take pictures with your cell phone?ĭG: I share it with the people I think it would mean something to. It was a Bertolt Brecht play, and he couldn't speak out of doctor's orders. The only person that doesn't smile is Al Pacino because he was ordered under the doctors not to speak after his performance. And one thing you'll see on my wall is the amount of joy. It’s interesting when you ask someone to take a picture, or they ask you to take a picture, how they smile. You had to own a camera and you had to read the Sunday New York Times cover-to-cover. If you worked for me or with me for the last 40 years, you had to do two things. MR: So this big wall of you with famous people in your office - is this the Jewish boy wanting to make his mother proud?ĭG: It's magical moments. When we won the Grammy for Silvana Estrada, all I thought about was my mother that night. I want my mother's approval as every Jewish boy does. My mother passed away in June and my father passed away almost five years ago. Unfortunately, I lost both my parents in the last five years. ![]() MR: But do you feel like you will have a personal consciousness after you die?ĭG: I don't think about that or know about that or dwell on it. I think you are preparing for coming generations. Max Raskin: You can't say that without that being the first question I ask you! Do you believe in God?ĭG: Yes. It is interesting how belief in God comes up - it gets interesting when you ask some of the most learned and educated people on earth about belief or non-belief in God. Daniel Glass: I did a lot of homework and there are some common themes in your interviews.
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