When the interests of the privileged and powerful are the guiding commitment of both political factions, people who do not share these interests tend to stay home.
Who we are now is all that really matters.
Envy and betrayal do not sleep, they are two things that always go hand in hand.
Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
I never set out to find a style of my own, it just happened.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn’t be able to do that.
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say anything sarcastic.
Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn’t play like Wynton.
Liberty is not merely one particular valueÂ…it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.
[On turning down the chance to appear in Ocean’s Twelve] Why say a couple of lines opposite Brad Pitt when I could be playing lead back home?
A great man is always willing to be little.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Only a woman can breathe under the water of life defying gravity and staying zen while doing it.
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
We’re ride or die. But I don’t accept the way we criticize and judge each other anymore. My personal growth doesn’t allow it.
There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat.
Grief never mended no broken bones.
