I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer.
What goes around, comes around.
The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right.
Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.
I have a problem with capitalism, in it's extreme sense. At the same time communism, I have a problem with that, because every man must feel like a lord in his own manor.
There is nothing Holy about hatred.
Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.
There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men for they are dangerous themselves and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth.
Sometimes the best moment to sing a victory song is in the middle of your battle.
When you lose what you love remember to stay strong. Look out the window and remember life goes on.
God didn't give you the strength to get back on your feet so that you can run back to the same things that knocked you down.
Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear
In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it.
I guess I'm still holding on to something that I know will probably never happen, because somewhere deep down inside me, I have this little piece of hope that someday, it will.
I am an observer of life, a non-participant who takes no sides. I am in the regimented society, but not of it.
People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time.
I practiced two or three hours, sometimes none, sometimes six. It was very varied.
People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.
My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.
I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see.
There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.
Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.
When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And if your name is on your shirt, you're poor.
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
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