I can feel what you’re feeling now — and you are worth it.
Catch Harry Belafonte. He's got a helluva rhythm section. And so have the Pointer Sisters. And that little guy with Sammy Clayton. He plays the whole show with 40 members.
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.
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.
Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat
I can't deny that it will be a historic event for an African-American to become president. And should that happen, all Americans should be proud - not just African-Americans, but all Americans - that we have reached this point in our national history where such a thing could happen. It will also not only electrify our country, I think it'll electrify the world.
The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension.