Sly Stone

"Sometimes I'm right, and I can be wrong. My own beliefs are in my song. A butcher, a banker, a drummer, and then Makes no difference what group I'm in. I am everyday people! (yeah yeah)"

"There is a blue one who can't accept the green one For living with the black one, trying to be a skinny one. Different strokes, for different folks! And so on, and so on, and scooby-dooby-doo. (oooh, sha sha!) We've got to live together!"

"I am no better, and neither are you. We are the same whatever we do. You love me, you hate me, you know me and then, You can't figure out the bag I'm in. I am everyday people! (yeah yeah)"

"Sly’s time on top was brief, roughly from 1968-1971, but profound. No band better captured the gravity-defying euphoria of the Woodstock era or more bravely addressed the crash which followed. From early songs as rousing as their titles — "I Want To Take You Higher," "Stand!" — to the sober aftermath of "Family Affair" and "Runnin' Away," Sly and the Family Stone spoke for a generation whether or not it liked what they had to say. … Led by Sly Stone, with his leather jumpsuits and goggle shades, mile-wide grin and mile-high Afro, the band dazzled in 1969 at the Woodstock festival and set a new pace on the radio. "Everyday People," "I Wanna Take You Higher" and other songs were anthems of community, non-conformity and a brash and hopeful spirit, built around such catchphrases as "different strokes for different folks.""