Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.

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.

The nails did not kill Him... It was the needs that did.

Success is not measured on what you earn, it is how you manage to be happy, benevolent and contented with your life.

As he returned to the bed, he could see Vallant eyeing him warily, but he ignored this, sat on the opposite end and braced the pad on his

I support legal immigration.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

Unless the radio is on I am usually listening to stuff that is very different to what I do.

We realize that if we live in a world that depends totally on CBS.com, we'd be dead.

Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.

If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.

I think theatres will always remain a sacred place where people go for something live and experience things live, which is very different than the experience of film.