Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me.It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'.

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.

Each time he came he would twist my defenceless body into a different pose, as if I were his very own doll

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.

But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online.

When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.

I think I have made an impact in the workplace and I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end.

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

Bella: "I'd say I'm sorry, but I'm not." Edward: "And I should feel sorry that you're not sorry, but I don't.

It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of faith that absolutely supports the church.