Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the….

music / I let it wake me / take me / Spin me around and make me / Uh get down..

In love there is no because..

You won't be happy anywhere until you're happy somewhere..

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer..

Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. ….

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing..

When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't..

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours..

Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and r….

Knowledge is after all a non-rivalrous good.

God has always been the head of my life, even before I knew it..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

Education liberates a woman..

I was always interested in doing it, but I was so content with my life that I didn't really go after it..

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is..

From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs..

...friendship is something you do..

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful..

I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did d….

I modeled from the time I was 15 until I was 20..