It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
Just by chance, I happened to meet someone who told me there was a high level quizzing circuit.
Whenever I've collaborated with anyone in the past it's just happened really, I've never actively sought it out.
It used to be you sat up in your attic and wrote and went down to a local cafe and talked with people there.
You've got to develop relationships. You can't do things just in a formal context.
By the mid-1950s, the young bond traders on the Street were becoming more and more of a fraternity. We organized informal luncheons every Thursday in an effort to educate financial writers, who knew next to nothing about municipal bonds.
Networking doesn't have to be all about talking shop over appetizers and bad chardonnay - do it in a way that works for you.
I don't even have an agent or manager, but rather have a number of associates who I turn to when needed; or conversely when they hear of someone looking for me they'll contact me.
I hung at the studio. Myself and James Booker and several other musicians, as kids, we just literally hung at the studio, hoping somebody would get sick or get hurt and that we'd get to sub for them.
Locker rooms and grill rooms are still the best places to find out things you don't know - at the Masters or any other golf tournament.
