“Hopefully, we can get him back on his feet. It'd be great if people in Jackson could contribute. He was like a godfather for those of us who worked in Jackson in the '80s.”
“A bunch of them lived on State Street in a house we called the 'Munster House,' ... Pete used to tell this story: They were rehearsing one day and Sam stopped the band, waved his arms, and said, 'Gentlemen, could we please all dress as musicians!' ”
“There's a war going on. There's not a huge pipeline of Ph.D. students in graduate schools, and all the best schools in the country are fighting for the same group.”