"Peace is seeing the sunrise or a sunset and knowing who to thank."

“Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.”

“I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.”

Source : Bopgraphy/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.”

Source : Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir”, p.4, Open Road Media

“An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.”

“I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice.”

“If you took a little of Sam Cooke and a little of Little Richard, and poured it in a jar and shook it up and poured it out you would get Otis Redding.”

“I decided to find out how people at school might react if one of the students never came back.”

“For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us.”