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Vince Gill
Country Music Hall of Fame
Hank Williams used to write songs that were simple. There was great beauty in their simpleness. And to me, great songwriters tell stories where you hear those words and you see the pictures. The songwriters are like painters. They paint pictures in their words and in their songs. And that's generally what I think you're trying to do as a songwriter, is paint pictures. Because I've always -- you know, music's in my ears, it's not in my eyes. And so that's what I'm always trying to accomplish, is to get you to close your eyes and see in your own mind and your own heart what these words mean to you. I think that's the beauty of the written word. Everybody has their own interpretation of it. So I believe that there's -- as simplistic as songs are -- sometimes there's a great beauty in them.
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Vince Gill
Country Music Hall of Fame
We had a lesson in church, Sunday school, it's been several years ago, and it really just stuck with me. There was a go-around question that everybody in the class would answer. They said, "Okay, you have to give up one of the following, what will you give up? Your ability to speak, your ability to see, or your ability to hear?" I was the only one on the whole class that said the ability to hear. Because they said, "Oh it's better to be silent, I'd rather not speak," or "I'd hate to not see, and the beauty of this and that." And I go, "It's a slam dunk for me. If I can't hear, I'm dead," because the world speaks to me through my ears more so than my eyes. And I think that your eyes will lie to you. Your eyes will judge something before you ever know what it is. But your ears won't. And if I have my eyes closed, I don't know whether a man's wearing a tuxedo or he's dressed in rags. I don't know if he's white, I don't know if he's black, I don't know anything about him. And I think that's why I love music so much, and I'm not sold on videos and the music becoming a visual entity. I liked it when I put on a record and I saw my own pictures, I saw the story. It spoke to me through my ears. And so my ears are -- they're kind of the center of it all. They're what tell me what to play. I try to play like I would sing, and then sing like I would play.
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Rudolph Giuliani
Former Mayor of New York City
Rudolph Giuliani: Being a prosecutor, or being an assistant U.S. Attorney, was not a clear direction in law school. It didn't emerge until probably about halfway through law school, when I had a particular professor, Irving Younger, who was an evidence teacher, who had spent a very enjoyable part of his career in the United States Attorney's office. So therefore, his lectures were infected with all these stories of when he was a prosecutor and an assistant U.S. Attorney. And I became friendly with him, and he was my advisor, and that, I think, is the first thing that put in my mind the idea that it would be very, very interesting to be a prosecutor. Because as a young person, it almost seemed kind of harsh. Being a prosecutor sounds like you're going to create difficulties for people. But the reality is that by listening to him and talking to him, I came to the idea that this is when we should really help people. I mean, the reality is that you are dealing with people that do harm to other people, and deterring them from doing it, stopping them from doing it, trying to create more respect for law. I think he's the first one that really, sort of made that turn in my thinking.
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Rudolph Giuliani
Former Mayor of New York City
As the United States Attorney and assistant United States Attorney, a native New Yorker, I knew all the things that were wrong with the city. I had investigated organized crime, prosecuted organized crime, white-collar crime, drug dealing, municipal corruption, other forms of government corruption. I got to see all the bad parts of the city, and I knew all the good parts just from my life as a New Yorker. So I felt, well, this is an ideal situation for me. The city needs a reform mayor right now. It needs somebody who is going to change things. It needs a mayor who understands how to reduce crime, because we were averaging thousands and thousands of murders -- at one point, we were averaging 2,000 murders a year -- and so maybe I could get myself elected.
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Whoopi Goldberg
Actress and Activist
Whoopi Goldberg: Come on! Come on! You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck. But if it's what you want to do with your whole heart and soul, come on. Go everywhere, learn everything. Learn Shakespeare. Shakespeare is great fun. Don't be thrown by the words. The words are the same words that we use with a little different implementation. Write things for yourself. Come on, it's a great way to spend time. It's a great way to learn history. It's a great way to learn all kinds of things. But only come if you're coming to play. If you're not coming to play, you should get another gig to supplement your acting.
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