You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

I was doing my best Bogart, but I was having trouble getting into her jeans.

Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.

Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

How long will it be 'till we've turned To the tasks and the skills That we'll have to have learned If we're going to find our place in the future And have something to offer Where this planet's concerned?