If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

Know yourself -- and know your audience.

When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

You can't cheat the public for long.

Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.

Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

Books, I think, are what magic smells like.

In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.

I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.

I think a myth is created from truth.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

I had these slinky eyes and a sense of humor.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!