I always seemed to be in the right place at the wrong time..

Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment..

When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, James Boo….

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell there political and cultural time of day. It is als….

I'd rather have the whole world against me than my own soul..

We all, if we go with ego I go or you go ego thing, it's got to be free from all of that and just roll, because music is a spiritual thing. It's got ….

See, I dont know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never tho….

I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to me now. And they accept me as a humanoid….

The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five….

If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that..

I've been thinking a lot lately about taking chances, and how it's really just about overcoming your fears. Because the truth is, everytime you take ….

Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael Creaux Rebennack. I'm proud of them na….

When I was a little bitty kid, my aunt showed me how to play a little boogie. It took me years. I had to play the left-hand part with two hands, beca….

Marvin Gaye was a killer drummer. I think he just played during the soundchecks and he'd have another guy sing his parts while he played the drums. H….

Powerful people never educate powerless people in what they need that they can use to take the power away from powerful people; it's too much to expe….

When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your l….

In the network's mind there are no limits..

The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences public policy as well as pri….

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger..

You wanna do some livin' before you die. Do it down in New Orleans..

Everybody in my neighborhood in the '40s, they played pianos. That's how people partied. They didn't try the TV, the radio was OK, records was cool, ….