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… — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
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… — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
“Bring it home? All right, let's bring it home. If you was hit by a truck and you was lying out there in that… — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was… — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things… — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
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,… — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars. — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it. — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire. — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own… — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I… — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
