I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.
If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.
You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.
There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure.
The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.
After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.
Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.