Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted.

When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication. Performance is in the moment.

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

Some people are hard to forget, but some people are hard to remember.

We really are All One....this is the very philosophy that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for fifteen years.

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous.

In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.

It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.

You smile. No, it is not fatal.

Philadelphia, wonderful town, spent a week there one night

Appetite, a universal wolf.