“If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.” — Sam Phillips Quote

“If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.”

“There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.”

“Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.”

“I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.”

“I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.”

“I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.”

“Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”

“If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.”

“Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.”

“I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.”

“I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything.”

“The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.”