#get rhythm

Get Rhythm - Johnny Cash

“He went to Art School in the daytime whilst I went to work for Reinhardt. When he got home, my mother made him a meal, and the he would go up in to the attic and paint until I came home. I was often late, arriving at eight o’clock. He would rush down, and even though I was tired, we would talk and talk, but by eleven he would be painting again. There were times when he was painting that he could be so intense. When he had an idea, it didn’t matter whether it was night, day, morning – he had to do it, all in one go. He read all the time too. He could read, and write a letter at the same time, he was an absolute maniac in a way!”

“Existentialism was our way of expressing our difference from the old Germany. Our major influence was France: America was too far away, and it couldn’t be England for they were our enemies. We couldn’t buy any English books or records or anything. We took all our information and inspiration from France – music, writing, art, the looks. I loved Juliette Greco. My hero, and the biggest influence, was Jacques Cocteau; his movies, the strict black and white, the way he composed every shot: It wasn’t just a film; it was a sequence of pictures. The Beatles introduced the American influence, because most of the music they –played was American. As interpreted by The Beatles, it was the first time I had heard songs by Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, The Miracles, Ray Charles and Jerry Lee Lewis. The Beatles know how much I liked the music, and wanted me to hear the originals, so they wrote home and asked their parents to send the records over.”

Singing away my blues😔👌💙🎵