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When we all can worship from our own kind of pew, then we shall be free.
What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.
I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
Retail should never ever tell the copyright owner how their stuff is sold.
Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
It'll never go away until the fear you are running from is finally embraced.
When you sit on something trying to preserve it, you die and become sterile.
Life is not tried it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire.
Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain.
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
They call them fools, who are unable to resist the slightest chance love might exist.
How many songs in your life were your favorite songs but never were singles on albums?
It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.
One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them.
If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
Our future is not unpredictable, our future is simply the result of choices we have made.
She brings him hope in the way that angels do, taking him to heaven in ways he never knew.
I've got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.
I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
Thank God I'm with the love of my life. That's why I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be.
The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.
I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
Somebody that comes and dumps a brand-new album on me and doesn't play the old stuff, I'm pissed!
I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.
If you're gonna leave your mark, you can't follow a bunch of sheep, you gotta listen to your heart.
Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
I think in between where you are and where you want to be is a sea of reasons why you can't get there.
I know there's nothing that I wouldn't do Go to the ends of the earth for you To make you feel my love
You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.
The blues will be blue, and the jealousies green, but when love picks its color it demands to be seen.
All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.
But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.
Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart.
I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
It's midnight Cinderella, but don't worry none. Cause I'm Peter the Pumpkin Eater and the party's just begun.
If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.
As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.
A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.
The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.
There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.
Too many times we stand aside, and let the waters slip away. Til what we put off til tomorrow has now become today.
I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.
I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s.