I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an over acute capacity for sadness as well as elation. I know what the cat wh |
I drink to the confusion of our enemies |
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. |
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. |
I get an audience involved, personally involved, in a song because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately. I can't help myself, I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Dan |
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. |
I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood. When somebody called me a 'dirty little Guinea', there was only one thing to do-break his head. When I got older, I realized that you shouldn't do it that way. I realized that you've got to do it through education. Children are not to blame. It is the parents. How can a child know whether his playmate is an Italian, a Jew or Irish, unless the parents have discussed it in the privacy of their homes. |
I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know. |
I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know. |
I wish that one of these days somebody would learn to do [my art] so it doesn't die where it is. |
I would be honored just to be the pillow upon which this courageous man lays down to rest his head. |
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. |
I'm for whatever gets you through the night. |
I'm gonna live till I die. |
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life.... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes. |