I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it a...in't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be workin...g on a plantation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell f...or those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralyti...c polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you're crazy. It can fix you so you can't play nothing or sing nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaf and blood at the root... Black bodies swingin' in the southern breeze Strange fruit hangin' in the poplar trees.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »