C.A.Keith Quotes

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

Humans can be noble. The question is: Will we put forth what is necessary?

When we smile, the world smiles with us: each experience of joy is an experience of joy for all people and a victory for human kind.

To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.

Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.

I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.

Songwriting's a weird game.

George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?

To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.

There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, "Wow, that means I can go onstage and sound like Scotty Moore now and again!"

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

Just to be able to release an album back in the day when I came out was very gratifying. Most people were not given the opportunity.

In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.

People are still hearing your music. They might not be buying it, but they might be having it and you don't know it. Your music is still out there.

George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me.

I'm in love with boxing. It fell into my lap and I have been in love with it ever since.

When a 140 pounder that moves up fights a 140 pounder moved up and they move up it's a catch weight.

Everybody needs somebody sometimes.

I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.

Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

I don't need drugs to make weird music.

I wear black while suckers wear pink.

I think I speak for the guy who is just s a regular guy who says yo I don't wanna go to an expensive restaurant.

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

Grains are essentially sugar with enough opioids to make them addictive.

What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

I've been to two concerts in the last 10 years.Bob Seger and the Eagles.

My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.