Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

In music, silence is more important than sound.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.

Accept each other's fault with brotherly love.

If you know what you want to do, you have the opportunity to become who you want.

Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much.

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

I regret what I did but it was in my personal time and I therefore hope that it does not reflect on the show

Maybe it's just the morning light, but he looks pretty cool standing there with his sword.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night.