“I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.”

Genealogists live in the past lane.

We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds. ‘Cause there are so many sleeping people.

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’re gonna be rewarded.

The story of love is hello and goodbye, until we meet again.

When I’m sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles.

Don’t use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

If it was up to me, there wouldn’t be no such thing as the establishment.

I’m a million miles away, and at the same time I’m right here in your picture frame.

My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

You have to forget about what other people say, when you’re supposed to die, or when you’re supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.

My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don’t get them together nobody else will.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

You have to be a freak in order to be different.

All I’m gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

Well, obviously religion must come from inside.

Everything you’ve done may be undone for you to accomplish much more.

I want to follow my dreams. I want to make sure that I put myself first and accomplish what I need to accomplish.

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.

Being old didn’t seem like an accomplishment. Everyone I knew who was old was like sick or broke. It just didn’t look appealing until I moved to L.A. and started interacting with people who were 50+ and still kicking it, having money, living large.

Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.

Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.

When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.