Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

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.

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.

. . .but he'd seen elite warriors go down in flames enough times to struggle with the sovereignty of God yet yield to it

Yes! Yes! There's the attitude. Where was that girl during the race? Off getting sushi?

When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

You believe in a God who plays dice, I in complete law and order.

To win, I have to get angry. My anger is directed at the course, at attacking it and beating it.

We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.

The moment where the fisherman catches the fish, happiness and agony, light and darkness, joy and death come face to face!

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

Our very eyes Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind.