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"I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry."
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"Use your greatness, love, and kindness to change the world."
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"Identify darkness in the society and find ways to help illuminate it."
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"Everything is only a transition."
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"Every misfortune is a fortune."
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"The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged."
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"You are born with the power to change your life by simply changing your thoughts."
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"People tend to resist a change into something new and different.But after it's succeded, they easily say that the change is a must."
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"To change the action, change thoughts first."
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"By changing-we become what we always wanted to be."
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"We must remember that we cannot change others, we can only change ourselves."
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"If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music."
Music
"I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?'"
Music
"I enjoyed the Hee Haw people, but from 1980 on I didn't enjoy it and thought about leavin', and thought, hell, it's an easy job and pays wonderful. I kinda just prostituted myself for their money."
Money
"The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that."
Work
"I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time."
Time
"My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done."
Mother
"I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer."
Country
"I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw, the worse things got for me musically."
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"I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences."
Music
"I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look."
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