"It's important to realize that everybody who went into country music, and most everybody who went into rock and roll in the '50s, they had no more goal than a hit on the jukebox. Johnny Cash from the very beginning had a goal that he wanted to make music that lifted people's spirits."

-- Robert Hilburn

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“The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.”
“Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.”
“I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.”
“I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.”
“No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.”
“Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.”

Source : "'Unforgettable' Nat King Cole now downloadable" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. February 15, 2011.
“...As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We cling to things in the past and cling to things in the present...Do you want to enjoy a symphony? Don't hold on to a few bars of the music. Don't hold on to a couple of notes. Let them pass, let them flow. The whole enjoyment of a symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass...”
“There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives begin to sink into the same mould of denial and exercise of liberty, something is amiss.”

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