“You’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.”

His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.

The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women

Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.

Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.

If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.

But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…

That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.

I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.

They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.

Country music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling.

When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.

When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.

The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.

Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?

The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He’s the biggest. He’s like an Elvis in this business, but no, he’s never been the rebel.

They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody, other than public lending institutions, except to the extent that they are publicly declared.

The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.

The power of publicity is more important than advertising.

Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don’t do publicity if I don’t like the film.

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

All publicity works upon anxiety.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.