It is a great life, this life of music.

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

There's been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.