Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.
I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.
I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.
I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
I won't lie - when you're first bringing out music and you want people to notice, you probably overdo it, especially as a girl.
I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.
I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job.
You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.
Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.
That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
