In music, silence is more important than sound.

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.

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.

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?

Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog.

Oh! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

Books which are no books.

My life is now a constant assessment of whether what's happening in real life is more entertaining than what's happening on my phone.

In God's eyes the most significant is often the most hidden.

Most people, whether bull or bear, when they are right, are right for the wrong reason, in my opinion.

I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.