The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.
It's a different ballgame now, so that lets [teo] Macero out. He's always complainin', always sick.
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.
A pupil is a great resource.
Golf is like a razor. You get just so sharp and then it begins to dull a little more the more you use it.
Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is borne along by his own power and of his own volition. Every movement made by the drowned man - indeed, every act and word that issue from him - comes from the water, not from him. . . The saints are like this. They have died before death.
One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.