When the country prospers, everyone does. In music and in everything.

Curiosity pulls people into the scam.

Recording an album and doing it live are like two different animals. There are some people that are great singers live, horrible in the studio.

If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.

If you get married, you become vulnerable.

I think Donald Trump is gonna do great. Because I've worked with him and known him a long time. He's a guy who is not programmed to fail.

I hate to say Napster kind of killed our business, but what can I tell ya?

No one sells records anymore. It's all about touring. It's all greatest hits records and box sets. And even those don't sell. People just go online.

I don't really play overseas stuff. I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that way. You gonna improve on a Les Paul or Fender Stratocaster? Those are perfect designs, and there is nothing to add really.

I've been a musician for 52 years professionally. I do it because, for me, I love it.

Donald Trump is a guy that's gets stuff done. If he says he's gonna do something, he does it. He doesn't worry about it. He's got thick skin. He's gonna do it. He's gonna bring jobs back.

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

We all knew the great lesson of history

Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.

Simplicity is the soul of modern elegance.

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

Many of us refuse to grow where we are put; consequently, we take root nowhere.

The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.