You can walk out on me tonight, if you think that it ain't feeling right, but darling, there's no getting over me.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

They say love will find a way. I know determination will.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.

I am a Christian. I know I am a Christian, knowing that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.

Music is not just my passion it's my companion.

I feel this is a family here, so kinda regardless of whatever happens in your life, you always can come home to the Grand Ole Opry, thank God.

I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

The last time I saw Elvis was when I played my second New Years Eve show for him in 1970.

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

Knowledge is the key driver of the progress of civilization.

And Sky?” he asked, his voice soft. “Yes?”“Maybe you don’t need me, but I need you.

Stupidity is not a behavior

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.

It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.