45 quotes found
Musician · American · 1950
American musician (born 1950)
“Time is long but life is short.”
“If you don't ask, you don't get.”
“Minds ripen at very different ages.”
“Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall”
“Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.”
“Baby, everything is alright,Uptight, outta sight!”
“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.”
“....Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.”
“Did you know that true love asks for nothing? Her Acceptance is the way we pay.”
“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”
“What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.”
“I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.”
“Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.”
“God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.”
“Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.”
“Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.”
“We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.”
“Sometimes I think I would love to see … just to see the beauty of flowers and trees and birds and the earth and grass. … Being as I've never seen, I don't know what it's like to see. So in a sense ...”
“I've been a vegan for two years, so that's helped my already good-looking self. I think that eating healthy is important. … We have to be about making our planet more greener, the urban areas more ...”
“What I’ve not heard is a unanimous commitment to atone for the sins of this country... I know that dance. I've heard those songs. It was an 18-year fight to (make) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birt...”