Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
Rock is my child and my grandfather.
Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.
The Big Band Era is my era. People say, ‘Where did you get your style from?’ I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That’s the best way I could explain it.
Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering “who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?”
All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
If the people in the audience are talking, you’re being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you’ve got something they want to hear.
Rock ‘n’ roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let’s don’t leave out the economics. No way.