I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
Folks always look good in their coffins.
I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.
Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine.
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.
I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend-without a song.' So I keep singing a song.
A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.
When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.
That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.
I feel so alone sometimes. The night is quiet for me. I'd love to be able to sleep. I'll probably not rest. I have no need for all this. Help me, Lord.
NUTHIN' more fun than Rock n' Roll!
I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can't help falling in love with you.
I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.
Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me
I never expected to be anybody important.
We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.
If you wanna be loved, baby, you've got to love me, too. Oh yeah, cause I an't for no one side love affair.
The only kind of trouble I've ever been in is when I was stealing eggs when I was little. I think I know right from wrong.
Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music. That music became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape from the problems. And my way of release.
Maybe I didn't treat you Quite as good as I should have Maybe I didn't love you Quite as often as I could have Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind You were always on my mind
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight
Your kisses lift me higher...like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky, with burning love.
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