Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.

A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.

These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.