I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.

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.

Let thy prayer be thanksgiving.

Whatever situation you are in, you should find an opportunity to renew your strength in the Lord, so that your problems don’t affect your joy, your peace and rest.

The world's only lessons are tension and fear — relax into yourself.

The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.

I don't make any money.

It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty.

Republicans always are gearing whatever they do to benefit the high end.

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.