I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.

I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.

Stay in school, stay off drugs, don't make the same mistakes I did, respect yourself, and others will follow.

Rock'n'roll is nothing but Boogie Woogie with stuff on top of it. And if you're black, they name it rhythm'n'blues, and if you're white, they name it rock'n'roll. So, I don't give a... You know.

I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

Cultivate plants which attract lovely company.

They prefer their meals alive and terrified, for fear is their favorite sauce.

He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

What does true even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them to the air they melt away.

I want to be a guy who produces runs, who drives in runs, who can beat you with a single or can beat you with a home run, who's just a tough out.

I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.

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Inductee in the Vintner's Hall of Fame