I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.

Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.

An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.

A good head and a bad heart make a good politician

The palest ink will endure beyond the memories of man

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

Appreciate what you have while you have it and the beauty in what’s there right now and try to preserve it for tomorrow.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.