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"Television really has been responsible for everything that I've done successfully. I can't put it into anything else. No massive hit records. No 30,000 concert attendance, except a couple of times. But you put this face on television, week in, week out, they'd stop me and they'd say, 'Hey, Roy, how are you doing?' They'd know who I was, what I was, what I looked like, and what I did --  all from seeing and hearing it at the same time on television."

"The trick is not to have a style, but to be able to do any style."

"It's hard for young people today to realize what it was like to grow up before television. Television, I think, is the most revolutionary event of the 20th century....The television camera reduced the world to your living room, literally. You knew things when you were six that I didn't know till I was 40."