People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.
I sing the songs that people need to hear.
Country music has the great stories.
The two things you can't fake are good food and good music
You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain't my President - had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. She's going to get her [expletive] whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now I'm going to sing it for y'all.
The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.