“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.”
   – Johnny Cash

“Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end.”
   – June Carter Cash

“Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.”
   – Bonnie Raitt

“I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on both counts, but I never noticed.”
   – B.B. King

“I'm a big woman. I need big hair.”
   – Aretha Franklin

“I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.”
   – Iggy Pop

“Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it.”
   – Jack White

“Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you'll suck forever.”
   – Brian Wilson

“If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.”
   – Bruce Springsteen

“Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.”
   – Willie Nelson

“I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.”
   – Mary J. Blige

“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.”
   – Patti Smith

“Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.”
   – Pete Seeger

“If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.”
   – Lou Reed

“Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.”
   – Eminem

“You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!”
   – Dolly Parton

“If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.”
   – Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott

“I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records.”
   – Steve Earle