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

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

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.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

I love working with the singers. I love just finding them.

I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.

It's a large as life and twice as natural

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.

I read graphic novels, here and there, but I'm not a comic book guy, as much.