Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Wander with intentinto a garden glorious.Walk with double briskupon edenic paths.Flee the cursing fearthat lights upon your eye.Seize the twisted dreamthat strangles earth and sky.

Time doesn't run backward, you know, and things that have been done can't be undone, no matter how hard you wish.

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe.

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.

Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that Nature intended the intercourse of two, she intended that of all!