Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

It is a great life, this life of music.

There's been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

My first wife was a theater person.

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it'd kill me. If I'd have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.

Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.

If I am horror writer, I should listen to metal???- Why not to dubstep??? Or Deathstep???

Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.

For just this moment, he wanted her to see him for who he was, without the pity he knew she'd feel when she found out the truth.

The soul of dispatch is decision.

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

Donald Trump and I are going to make sure that law enforcement have the resources and the tools to be able to really restore law and order to the cities and communities in this nation.

Live authentically. Live your truth. And if you love me for anything, love me because I live mine.

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

It’s happened to far too many Americans. You open up your phone bill and wonder why there’s an extra zero, or several, on the amount that you owe.