Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

Don't go backwards - you've already been there.

Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

Just because you can't see anything , doesn't mean you should shut your eyes.

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.

Live each day like it's your last, 'cause one day you gonna be right

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

He felt as though the bones of his ribcage were snapping beneath the weight of the stone that God had laid over his heart.

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.

Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love.

I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

If your God is mighty enough to ignite the sun, could it be that He is mighty enough to light your path?

I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart I laugh but the laughter does not pass within I burn but the burning makes no mark outside.

I'm still amazed at how much people are willing to humiliate themselves to be on TV.

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.