There is always the gigantic and human figure of Johnny Cash, his warm and granitic voice, his appearance, that heroism linked to his fallibility, that splendid parable, among triumphs and falls that ever since I was sixteen and I heard Johnny for the first time hit me. Johnny’ s“ American Recordings” are there, when I want to get excited. Just listen to Johnny and the shivers rise to me. Along with you there are your forever companions, like Previte and Pellati, as well as guitarist Antonio Gramentieri. If you had the chance to choose one more musician, completely at your choice, who would you add to your lineup? Jim Keltner, is one of my dreams in the
drawer, a piece with Keltner on the drum. From the height of your experience, can you tell us what you like and what you do not like about the music in Italy today? I do not like the logic of the increasingly strict“ pool” that music has become, I do not like this“ end of the world” climate that is pervading the environment, I do not like who also negates our dreams and not only in talent shows; even musicians or pseudo-such, who pretend to do music with the same protection as any other trade. It does not work that way, I say, quoting the immense Kandinsky, that it takes an“ inner necessity” to express yourself to do music( but even cinema, literature, photography), if your soul asks you.
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There is always the gigantic and human figure of Johnny Cash, his warm and granitic voice, his appearance, that heroism linked to his fallibility, that splendid parable, among triumphs and falls that ever since I was sixteen and I heard Johnny for the first time hit me. Johnny’ s“ American Recordings” are there, when I want to get excited. Just listen to Johnny and the shivers rise to me. Along with you there are your forever companions, like Previte and Pellati, as well as guitarist Antonio Gramentieri. If you had the chance to choose one more musician, completely at your choice, who would you add to your lineup? Jim Keltner, is one of my dreams in the
drawer, a piece with Keltner on the drum. From the height of your experience, can you tell us what you like and what you do not like about the music in Italy today? I do not like the logic of the increasingly strict“ pool” that music has become, I do not like this“ end of the world” climate that is pervading the environment, I do not like who also negates our dreams and not only in talent shows; even musicians or pseudo-such, who pretend to do music with the same protection as any other trade. It does not work that way, I say, quoting the immense Kandinsky, that it takes an“ inner necessity” to express yourself to do music( but even cinema, literature, photography), if your soul asks you.