You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.

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.

Now to tell ya about our fellow inmates. Pay attention because there are a bunch of us an’ we each have a story.

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells.

The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.

But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?

Three men, together riding, Can win new worlds at their will; Resolute, neer dividing, Lead, and be victors still. Three can laugh and doom a king, Three can make the planets sing.

I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.