Sam Phillips Quotes

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“If youre not doing something different, youre not doing anything.”
— Sam Phillips —

“If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.”

— Sam Phillips

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 once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.

— Sam Phillips

“If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.”

— Sam Phillips

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

— Sam Phillips

“I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.”

— Sam Phillips

“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 the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.”

— Sam Phillips

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 white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

— Sam Phillips

“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 innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.”

— Sam Phillips

“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

“I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.”

— Sam Phillips

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