I like walking on the edge.

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.

Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

Transform yourself from desperate doormat to outspoken doormat-wielding proctologist.

In ocean of tears, the heart of stone sinks. (Dans l'océan de larmes, - Le coeur de pierre donc coule.)

Don't be sorry. Just try not to let him touch you. When he touches you I see red. I can't take it. I don't want to see him or anyone else touch you

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.

When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.