If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music.
The combination of a simple gospel truth with an appealing melody is one of the greatest teachers we will ever have.
We need to accept and document the differences in how other cultures hear the world. The opportunities to do so are rapidly diminishing with the diffusion of Western music around the world, and I think we need to seize the opportunity to do as much as we can before the window closes.
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
The thing about Deford Bailey, Ray Charles, and Charlie Pride, the two or three black people who were known to be in country music. They were accepted. The musicians accepted them at a time when the culture did not accept. There's a truth in the music. And it's too bad that we, as a culture, have not been able to address that truth. That's the shame of it. The art tells more of the tale of us coming together.