[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

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.

My God can do it! My God will do it! My God wants to do it! My God has done it!

Success is a steadily progress.You can make steadily progress in all spheres of life.

Our only security is our ability to change.

Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four.

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

One person's cult is another person's spiritual organization.

First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.

I don't play to sweat, I play to win.

I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices.

she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.