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Interviewer: I’d like to ask you your opinion on a few things. You’re an opinionated man, articulate man. First off smoking. Tony Ranall: How could you have a good opinion of smoking? Smoking is an evil. It’s an evil thing. Interviewer: Rock n’ Roll Music. Tony: It’s stupid and dull and boring. Interviewer: opera. Tony Ranall: Some Opera is wonderful. I don’t love all Operas. No Rock N’ Roll, People feed me that question, knowing what they’re going to get but it’s terrible stuff. Awful stuff. And it’s done a terrible thing to our nation and perhaps the world because it’s conquered the whole world. We live in strange times. I don’t understand them at all. I don’t think anyone does. We live in a time when children have money. I cannot understand children having large sums of money. It doesn’t seem logical to me. I can't understand it. I can’t quite accept it. I can’t believe that children can walk into a record store and buy 15, 18, 25 dollars worth of records and they do. They have the money. I don’t know where they get it. I don’t know who gives them that kinda money. There’s something wrong about that. Very, very profoundly wrong in children having large sums of money. Now children buy records therefore children dominate that market. All that music is made for children . It’s made for the lowest possible taste that’s children and that's what rock n’ roll is. Interviewer: Now wait a minute, there’s a lot of 30 year old people that love rock n’ roll. Tony: They grew up on it. This situation has existed now for a full generation of children having money. And that’s all they know, 30 year old people. They are ignorant and benighted. They have been misled by something that is rotten. Grown people who think this is good. Interviewer: Well don’t sugar coat it for us, tell us what you really think *laughs. Tony: But it’s terrible. Stupid, mindless, repetative stuff.