Know yourself -- and know your audience.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

You can't cheat the public for long.

Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.

Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.

If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

Belief made no difference to the truth.

A gift.A gift from a queen who had seen another woman in hell and thought to reach back a hand. With no thought of it ever being returned. A moment of kindness, a tug on a thread.

When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.

We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

Speak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd.

And now, with the aid of this common beer glass, I shall play my fifty guinea solo.

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

I learned from you that I do not crumble. I learned that strength is somthing you choose.

There's so many young peoople who start to play basketball and never learn the fundamentals.

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.