We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.
I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.
Know yourself -- and know your audience.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!
Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.
When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.
Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.
. . . I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord had pointed me in the direction of spiritual activity. . . And then it was disclosed to me that I could do both spiritual and musical work. So for five years I executed that contract, and when it was finished, after I made the album Transfiguration, I didn't make another album until twenty-six years later. This new album, Translinear Light, came out of the pleading and constant appealing from my son Ravi Coltrane: 'Ma, please make a CD. ' So I eventually agreed.
I don't believe you are simply born with the ambition of becoming chancellor. But if you want to make a difference, if you enjoy putting ideas into practice, then the post of chancellor has to be the one presenting the biggest opportunity of all.
As a human being on Earth, you can't imagine friendship not being important in some other solar system or some other planet, or some other context of beings that are conscious. We even see it in animals. It is important for people on Earth to reach out or reach into someone.