Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.
A little mordida, here. A little mordida, there.
We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.
From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them.
I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to steer 'em in the right direction. ' That's the whole trip in life, ya know.
Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.
If you do right, everything will come out right.
If we work for social change - and it is good to do such things - let us always do it with an awakened heart big enough for all. There is no enemy; there is only ignorance. There is no one to hate, only many to love.
Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.
I'm interested in the way each piece comes together to work as one bigger thing. But The whole point was for people to have fun with it and not be taking it too seriously. I think a lot of people succeeded in that.
When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is. . . then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.