Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

It is a great life, this life of music.

There's been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

My first wife was a theater person.

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it'd kill me. If I'd have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.

My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

Stop raping your feelings with thoughts!

I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be.

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.

I know how to go, go, go. Stopping, I've learned is the stuff of mastery.

A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered.

I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy. I adore it, but I love dramatic movies just as much.

Those who need nothing attract everything.

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.