Don't be impatient when it takes too long. Or drink it all even when it tastes to strong.
I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.
Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.
There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.
I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.
I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.
For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.
Most of America's leading entrepreneurs are bound to the masts of their fortunes. They are allowed to keep their wealth only as long as they invest it in others. In a real sense, they can keep only what they give away. It has been given to others in the form of investments. It is embodied in a vast web of enterprises that retains its worth only through constant work and sacrifice. Capitalism is a system that begins not with taking but with giving to others.
But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.
It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.