Re: Leadbelly – "One of the few ex-cons who recorded a popular children's album."

"A lot of people who play one kind won't play with people who play another kind, but me personally, I never understood any kind of border patrol when it comes to music."

"Some people call Bob [Seger] the poor man's Bruce Springsteen, but personally, I always thought Bruce was the rich man's Bob Seger. Love em both, though."

Re: Red Headed Woman – "Boy, you hear a record like that, and you wish more Rockabilly bands had trumpets."

Re: How You Gonna Get Respect—"A political statement you can dance to."

Re: Eddy Dugash and the Ah-Ha Playboys: "Sometimes you just play a record because you like the name of the band. I love the name of this band, but I also love the record."

"Not all songs about crying are necessarily sad."

Re: Robert Parker's Barefootin' – "The man who wrote the national anthem of shoelessness."

Re: Jimmy Lewis – "He sounds as bad off as a rubber-nosed woodpecker in a petrified forest."

"Willie Nelson's tour bus runs on cooking oil….I've toured with Willie…sometimes late at night you can see us, I'm filling up my tank at the gas station and he's filling his up at Denny's."

"I always liked songs with parentheses in the title."

Re: Dinah Washington's Manhattan – "If there every was a love song to a city, I'd say it was this one."

Re: Prince Buster's Taxation – "Like all great artists, he was able to turn things that bothered him into three minutes of musical pleasure. Like here."

Re: Porter Wagoner's Skid Row Joe – "Next up, a very sad song. A recitation. A sermon. A speechifying testification. From Porter Wagoner, telling a tale of a sad man down on his luck in the dirty part of town."

Re: Tex William's Brother Drop Dead – "Some people die too soon. Others, you're kind of hoping. Tex Williams has a song for such a situation."

Re: Sinatra singing Summer Wind—"West Coast weather is the weather of catastrophe. The Santa Ana winds are like the winds of the apocalypse. But the summer wind that Frank's singing about may be a little lighter. Come on in, Frank."

Re: Charles Aznavour—"The Frank Sinatra of France…sings in six languages – French, English, Italian. He's written over a thousand songs…I only know about half of them."

Re: Memphis Minnie—"Me and My Chauffeur Blues. One of the great blues songs of all time, one of the great car songs of all time, one of the great chauffeur songs of all time, sung by one the great old ladies of all time - Memphis Minnie."

Re: Joni Mitchell—"Joni and I go back a long ways. Not all the way back, but pretty far. I've been in a car with Joni. Joni was driving a Lincoln. Excellent driver. I felt safe."

Re: Howlin' Wolf—"This next song is entirely without flaw and meets all the supreme standards of excellence."

Re: Hank Williams—"One of the greatest songwriters who ever lived was Hank Williams, of course. Hank could be headstrong and willful, a backslider and a reprobate, no stranger to bad deeds. However, underneath all of that, he was compassionate and moralistic."

Deep Thoughts

"I don't trust a man who doesn't tear up a little watching Old Yeller."

"All of our shows are for truckers, if not about truckers."

"They say the earth's warmin' up. Be careful of that global warming, and wear your sunscreen."

"Music City USA – one of the only places where a banjo player can make a six figure income."