If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.

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.

Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around

One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

If you come back to me, I'll never leave you", I whispered into the furry ear. "I'll make you all the pies you could ever eat.

It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.

When I die, I'd like 'Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.'

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others.

Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.