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.

Man, I really like Vegas.

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.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now.

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

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.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.

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