The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

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.

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.

We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers

My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my lifefor our love is wholeI sing her beauty in my soul.

The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.

I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Winners don't just learn the fundamentals, they master them. You have to monitor your fundamentals constantly because the only thing that changes will be your attention to them.

My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.