The compass represents spirituality, no end and no beginning. . . . the ruler represents 'tangible evidence'. . . a measurable event. . . both coming together shall represent a Human Being. . . the intersection of life and consciousness.
You can't cheat the public for long.
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.
It is a reality that we have complete control of organised Christianity. Almost anywhere, completely. We 'Jews' must become lawyers so we could control and strangle the courts, we should become teachers and leaders in all the churches.
Strike one is a big, big pitch-you can do a lot after you get strike one, no matter how you get it.
When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom.