You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

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.

Life is life.Don't ever look back in life.Life ahead is far better than the past.

One life, One love, One breath, One people, One chance to make a difference. If we are not one in LIFE we surely will be one on DEATH.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

Playboy seems like a sad magazine for me. It seems like for men who would sit around in a bath robe.

What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.

I was my own woman. The next step was to find the proper sort of man.