Art is a way of possessing destiny.
I’d been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I’d been doing wrong. I’d been singing too loud. One night I was listening to a record by Lester Young, the horn player, and it came to me. Relax, just relax. It’s all going to be all right.
Don’t you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?
Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we’re heading.
Don’t play with something you should cherish for life...
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
Politics and hypocrites are turning us all into lunatics.
To share is precious, pure and fair. Don’t play with something you should cherish for life. Don’t you wanna care, ain’t it lonely out there?
I want to stop and thank you baby, how sweet it is to be loved by you.
When I get that feeling, I want some sexual healing.
Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.
Ain’t nothing like the real thing.
Anger destroys your soul.
War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate.
Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before.
I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don’t quite know how to explain it but it’s there. These can’t be the only notes in the world, there’s got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.
Jesus left a long time ago, said he would return. He left us a book to believe in, in it we’ve got an awful lot to learn.
I don’t make records for pleasure. I did when I was a younger artist, but I don’t today. I record so that I can feed people what they need, what they feel. Hopefully, I record so that I can help someone overcome a bad time.
Most fear stems from sin; to limit one’s sins, one must assuredly limit one’s fear, thereby bringing more peace to one’s spirit.
I’m hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly sky.