“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 gutter dying, and you had time to sing one song, one song that people would remember… — 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, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song. — 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