:51:01
Then he told the doctor he would wait
unless he could play the show tonight.
:51:04
So, let's give him a big hand.
:51:09
The thing I tell the kids
a lot lately is...
:51:12
in one sense, music is
the most selfish act.
:51:16
But if you can actually
get up there and play music...
:51:18
and make people smile,
there's nothing like that.
:51:20
And if I create kids who go out there
and play music selfishly...
:51:25
and in spite of themselves and
make other people happy by doing that...
:51:29
and make themselves happy...
:51:31
and understand that when
youre just playing music...
:51:34
to create music,
you're at your best...
:51:36
that's enough.
:51:41
Let me tell you something else.
I'm gonna be a jerk for a minute.
:51:45
The Philly Enquirer
is coming in here tomorrow.
:51:47
They're gonna come a few times.
:51:49
They're gonna write a story
in the Sunday Magazine.
:51:51
Okay? About me.
:51:53
The circulation of the Sunday Enquirer
is like two million people.
:51:57
I'm gonna have
a million new students.
:52:01
Okay? You know what that means?
Apocalypse for most of you.
:52:06
It's the end, motherfuckers.
:52:08
Basically, I got a call
out of the blue one day...
:52:10
Melissa Dribben,
Philadelphia Enquirer.
:52:13
They wanna do an article, so, you know,
I had her come in and you know...
:52:17
maybe as this movie will show,
I'm not that good at editing myself...
:52:19
when people with pens
and recording devices are around.
:52:23
I met the lady
that wrote the article...
:52:26
and she was... fucking weird in the head.
:52:32
First of all, I mean, it was written
with the composition of a fourth grader...
:52:37
rambling and outright long.
:52:39
She misquoted me, created the quote.
:52:41
Also, she called me a sad Eeyore
of Rock School, which was okay.
:52:45
But the major underlying point
of the article...
:52:48
and what struck a chord with my mother...
is that there was...
:52:54
It outright said that
there was a Will O'Connor Award...
:52:56
for the kid most likely to kill himself.