A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

I just know that, right now, the biggest record selling business there is rock and roll.

I like Brando's acting… and James Dean… and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.

I never expected to be anybody important.

I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in.

I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

It just happened. I like to sing, and well, I just started singing and folks just started listening. I can't tell folks that I worked and learned and studied, and overcame disappointments, because I didn't.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear Mother Goose rhymes.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. it's very hard to live up to an image.

There is a season for everything, patience will reward you and reveal all answers to your questions.

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times.

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