The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.

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.

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

May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

You make the Choice and thereafter that Choice makes you. You create your Dream and thereafter that Dream creates you.

Do not allow your thoughts to condemn you.

I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on several occasions.

Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

Drinking a cup of green tea, I stopped the war.