When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.

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.

if man's life value for women and if she need man, believe me she can not Broke his swear never in any situation, in any condition.

Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe.

Some people get married and they remain "I," some get married and become "we."

All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

I don't think I'd like Manhattan anymore. My mother-in-law lives there, and you go there. But I like looking at it from a distance. It's a fantastic sight - every time, it awes me.

I loathe the idea of going onstage in a T-shirt and jeans.

Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.

I stand for a strong state that safeguards freedom. I don't need to show muscle for that.