Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

We didn't come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some lads who have been here a couple of years.

We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.

We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public.

You don't have to do anything. Why worry? It's all god's plan anyway. Just love everyone and believe.

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

only full it will be that sees white and call it black

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

I have been blessed by God. And if I'm blessed, there is one reason and one reason only, and that is to help others.

God is a crutch? Yeah, well, not believing in God is a coma.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I see no further hope.

The music game is more than just my love for singing, its a sport for me.

Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.

Love is just a hole in the wall.