Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
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.
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.
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.
In music, silence is more important than sound.
Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast enough.
One of my favorite things as a teenage girl was getting dressed up to go to shows.
It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.