If you have a tone like mine that is recognizable. No matter what I play, when you hear my tone you can tell it's me.

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.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

every good artist paints what he is

I decide to put love in everything I do from this day forward. With every fold of laundry, every push of the grocery cart, every stir of a pot, and every word spoken, I will emanate love.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

An athlete needs to read situations before they happen.

I have to act to live.

The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.