The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I dont want what they have I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business. – Joe Nichols
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all. – John Hope Franklin