To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.
I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.
I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.
You evil thing, why do you haunt me?
Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?
I loved Western Swing and Hank Williams' music, and I now know that it's a 6th tuning that gives you all of those classic licks.
All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River. . . And singers like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river.
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.
After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated Franklin Roosevelt in that crowd, my father among them. And there was a great fear in '46 that we'd fall back into the pits. And they always wanted to break up the Roosevelt legislation.