It’s like a surge of electricity going through you. It’s almost like making love, but it’s even stronger than that. Sometimes, I think my heart is going to explode.
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Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.
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A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
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Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it you have it all over.
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
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I don’t know anything about music. In my line of work you don’t have to.
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Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‚em all together, I guess.
I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I’m just an entertainer.
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I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.
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From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.
I don’t sound like nobody.
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The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn’t know what all the yelling was about. I didn’t realize that my body was moving. It’s a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said ‚What’d I do? What’d I do?
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
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Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
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When things go wrong don’t go with them.
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Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.
Singers come and go, but if you’re a good actor, you can last a long time.
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I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.
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Just because you look good, don’t mean you feel good.
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Only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.
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The most beautiful thing in the world to me is a baby lookin‘ as pretty as her mama.
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Do what’s right for you, as long as it don’t hurt no one.
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Talent is being able to sell what you’re feeling.
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