Country comes before politics.
Every country has it trade offs.
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together.
Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?
I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.
Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
And what happens a lot of times when - let's just speak specifically white and black - when white or black people feel misunderstood when it comes to talking about race, they immediately get defensive.
Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.
I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.