Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

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.

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

Life is so strangeI don't know whyBut somebody, somebody has to cry.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

Art is a Verb, not a Noun.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.

The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.