Music

Safe? I wrote my greatest music after the hearing was gone, when every sensible man would have stopped.

I left the archbishop's livery with nothing but my ears, and I would do it again before breakfast.

Bet on it, but understand what betting means. It means the lab, not the launch party.

Money is numbers, mon, and numbers never end. If it take money to feel safe, that search never done.

Man, I was driving a truck when I paid Sun Records four dollars to cut a record for my mama.

Pops, I came up with nothing but a cornet and the joy in it, and that horn fed me my whole life.

When we made Thriller, everyone said be realistic, and I said no, this has to be the biggest album in history.

Safe is just another word for letting somebody else own you.

I'm the wrong person to ask for play it safe, because every good thing I have came from a bet somebody told me not to make.

I'd distrust both options, honestly. Safe versus bet is a very managerial frame, and interesting things rarely come from…