“I wasn’t altogether emotionally ready for the gig. I was only 18, and going through what a lot of young musicians go through, because I teach now and I can see it. It’s a paranoid period, you know, ‘Can I play?’
It’s almost an inferiority complex. I was going through that at the time, becoming more inhibited, thinking that I wasn’t doing that well. When I listen to the records now, 1 find that I was really playing pretty well; it was more my mind that wasn’t up to the gig. But I stayed a year, and after I left, as the years went by and I got older and learned more, I often wished that I had the gig back, because it was great, and I didn’t fully appreciate it when I had it—too worried to enjoy it.”
– Bob Moses, Down Beat Magazine, April 1975, interview by Charles Mitchell
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