The Jews are the most hateful and the most shameful of the small nations.
I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.
Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.
We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.
You never know in retrospect whether you did or didn't do exactly the right thing, stay-at-home mothers, gone-away mothers, all ofus worry whether we should have done something differently than we did.
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.
Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.