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.

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

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.

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.

He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.