It's a different ballgame now, so that lets [teo] Macero out. He's always complainin', always sick.

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.

I'll always be the yearning poet bleeding ink chasing stars drunk on dreams.

Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his early days and he would not answer. ‘What is the egg to the eagle?’ he asked me…

Realize that you are deeply limitless. Your potential is unlimited.

Some live life passionately, some live just to be alive, while some are already dead and are waiting for it to be official. Live your life to the fullest so your legacy won't ever die.

Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

Power unused is power useless.

I'll be needing a bridesmaid',she said.'A tall one. That way, I'll look more petite and feminine.

I hate exercising self-control.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.