Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.

If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on our fond melodies in his tomorrow, I have not labored in vain.

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin

Saving was slow and painful.

Nature was my kindergarten.

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

The sun is rising with a bright golden glittering glint. Let us wake up to enjoy the joyful battles of light and darkness.

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.

I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Want is an empty void - your real value is full and abundant.

It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

Hatred destroys the person who hates.

It's a very satisfying feeling for everyone involved into giving bands a new life - for me, the artists, and the audience.