Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

The trouble with all these other countries is they're all being run by foreigners.

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain.

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.

Photography is just light remembering itself.

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.