Public evidence record
Published podcast speaker
Claim ledger
11 transcript-backed records
01 / commitment
“I am going to come to understand, like I’ve learned about Led Zeppelin, why this person made those albums and what makes them great.”
02 / belief
“I think he would have been offended to have been called a communist in those days.”
03 / commitment
“I sought out all the great players who played opposite them—Oscar Robertson and Jerry West—who explained the game to me and explained how they interacted with the wonderful Knicks, Bill Bradley and Walt Frazier, and Dave DeBusschere, a team like we’ve never seen in New York since those days. I learned all I could about basketball, and I became a lifelong Knicks fan.”
04 / recommendation
“You can’t explain these things, Tyler, but we have to know that when one or two of these people come along, it really does as well to sit back and appreciate them because you won’t see people like that very often.”
05 / prediction
“I think maybe if they had stayed together, they might have lost some of that spark.”
06 / evaluation
“More than that, I think he learned how to step out of the Lennon-McCartney shadow and stand on his own two feet.”
07 / evaluation
“It’s a movie that makes you think, and it’s a movie that has a great political undertone. I think movies need to get that edge again today.”
08 / evaluation
“I would say “Thunder Road” is his masterpiece. I’ve seen him do it with a band and hotwire it, but I’ve also seen him sit down at the piano and play it where he rings every last ounce of romance out of that song.”
09 / preference
“I really studied it as if I were taking a foreign language and had never studied that language before. It gave me an opportunity to spend a good year and a half before I started writing, listening to their music, trying to understand it.”
10 / evaluation
“When it comes to music, because he is so demanding, but really a master of knowing how to work with people and how to get what he hears in his head onto a record and onto a stage.”
11 / evaluation
“I think perhaps the Stones, when it came to engineering, when it came to production, worked even a little harder than the Beatles.”