You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

The power of music just kinda kills all those ills; it cures everything and you’ve got more energy just from the music. And, I’ve never seen it fail. It’s good for ya; real good for ya.

Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

Music is the language of heaven.

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.

It’s important to have a husband that lives and believes the same way you do. Otherwise, you’re asking for problems.

True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.

All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream

Lacrosse is probably the best sport I ever played.

Love is and has always been His idea. He came to love us and to teach us how to love. When we do this, life is exciting, beautiful and rewarding.

It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good.

People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.

I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers.

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

When you’re truly connecting with wisdom, the more you learn, the more you realize the less you know.