We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

Every flower blooms from the face of impossibility with a hope to make this world beautiful.

The self was both its origins and its journey.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.

We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical

For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.

Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.

Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.