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“Cotton was a force of nature. There’s a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.”
“In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.”
“Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.”
“I’d have to pick cotton for a year to make what I’d make in a week in L.A.”
“We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.”
“I was a hard-workin’ little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin’ cotton, shockin’ grain, cuttin’ wheat, loadin’ wheat, choppin’ cotton, cleanin’ chicken houses, milkin’ cows, plowin’.”
“Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man.”
“I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.”
“I have to have the cotton candy shipped in.”
“Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool.”
“My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.”
“The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.”
“I was influenced a lot by those around me – there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.”
