My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

The power of music just kinda kills all those ills; it cures everything and you’ve got more energy just from the music. And, I’ve never seen it fail. It’s good for ya; real good for ya.

Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

Music is the language of heaven.

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.

Everyone's crazy, but few show it.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.

I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.

there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

It's hard to win in the league, because every team is good, they got players on their team. A lot harder than high school. It's competitive, and that's what I most love about it.

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

I will resign as party leader to take full responsibility for troubling the public and party supporters.

The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.