By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.