“The Crazy Crazy Ones” is Chris’ homage to those who have pushed the human race forward. The song also serves as a reminder that anything is possible and that there is only one you. Everyone has the ability to change the world and make a difference.
“Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is – everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.”
***Interview for PBS, ‘One Last Thing’ documentary, 1994***
“The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That’s maybe the most important thing. It’s to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.”
***Interview for PBS, ‘One Last Thing’ documentary, 1994***
“I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you’ll want to change life and make it better, cause it’s kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”
***Interview for PBS, ‘One Last Thing’ documentary, 1994***
The 53 people featured in Chris Chickering’s “The Crazy Crazy Ones” music video are: Albert Einstein, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bob Dylan, Pablo Picasso, Evel Knievel, Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks, Harry Chapin, Bono, Muhammad Ali, Stephen Hawking, Joseph Gauld, Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak, Cesar Chavez, Neil Armstrong, John Lennon, Bruce Lee, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Robinson, Alfred Hitchcock, Joan Baez, Orville & Wilbur Wright, John F. Kennedy, Jr., Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., Charlie Chaplin, Richard Branson, Mother Teresa, Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, Jane Goodall, Bob Marley, Mikhail Gorbachev & Ronald Reagan, Princess Di, Buckminster Fuller, Miles Davis, Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz, Bill Gates, Frank Sinatra, Orson Wells, Oprah Winfrey, Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward, Walt Disney, Nikola Tesla, Mahatma Gandhi,Ann Frank and Steve Jobs.
