Jo Huey Quotes

Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.

Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing.

A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.

I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards.

They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.' And they learned.

You only go from nowhere to everywhere once. Let's enjoy it!

Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.

The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.

It's true, I do like cheering people up.

God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do.

I do not want the voice of the people shut out.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite.

Men are separated by so many petty things.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.

We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.

When I was in the penitentiary after being accused of killing a policeman, I was more in the system in the penitentiary than ever.

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.

I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.

I am a Bay Area guy, no question.

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.

I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick.

Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it.

I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented.

I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.

'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think.

I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

A rather honored guest of the Cuban government, so I wouldn't experience the problems. I think it would take a black Cuban to really articulate this because I'm being treated in a very generous way.

We always had a central committee. They were mesmerized by Eldridge Cleaver.

Your belief system saturates the space around you.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

I wonder why he shot me.

I don't want people to think he [Eldridge Cleaver] is so important - our party is important because our party works for the people and no individual is important in our party, including myself.

I'm a tired runner in the human race.

I'm happy to be stuck with you.

You've been thinking and I've been drinking.

I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

Take it from me, its hip to be square.

Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating.

The choices I make - they have to be creative.