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.

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

Joy is the ultimate reward in life.

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.

I love that my career has been documented and I can look back one day and share it with my kids.

I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.

I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?

The problem with that is there are very few Latinos, Blacks and women who will have the same experiences as a white 25 year old male who went to Stanford.

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.