Love, peace and soul.
All I really wanted was to be a full-time disc jockey.
I am just convinced that people want to see people on TV who are more like themselves.
I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.
MTV essentially killed 'American Bandstand' and 'Solid Gold,' because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure.
My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've made that a passion.
It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.
'Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.
Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.
There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.
I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'
The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch.
I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.
I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an opportunity to get national television exposure.
People who dance well, dress well, are well groomed and know how to behave seem to know others who dance, dress and behave well.
Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.
Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.
There were three great child singing stars: Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Jackie Washington.
The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done.
Who's more important than Diana Ross?
