Wisdom Sayings

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

I do not seek, I find.

Before Elvis, there was nothing.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Seems to me that the only thing that matters is that we like it, and we do. We like to blow, and we like to swing. And we like to make people happy.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

I wish I could make a sound that would make people's hair stand on end, you know, just like, 'Whoa!'

My father was a white man. I mean, I'm not ashamed of my father, but I am ashamed of the things that he did.

Rock 'n' roll is sung by cretinous goons. It's the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear.

I demand to be taken seriously.

I'm a little wacky. I'm a little fun. I'm a little kooky. I'm a little crazy. I'm a little bit of everything.

I am a member of the bourgeoisie and feel myself to be such, and I have been brought up in their opinions and ideals.

I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

I have always been afraid of being a woman.

I don't use the accident. I deny the accident.

I'm not a real person. I'm a legend.

Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.

I can only compose if I am in a state of frantic excitement. My nerves must be in a state of tension, of feverish agitation.

I am and always will be a peasant from Roncole.