Gil Scott-Heron Quotes

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

I find it not just strange but almost ridiculous that people could take a song like the one I was doing and interpret it is corroding anything. Folks have the feeling that oftentimes if you don't talk about something it will go away.

Well the first thing I want to say is mandate, my ass... We've been convinced that 26% of the registered voters is actually a mandate. We're all actors in this I suppose.

The way you get to know yourself is by the expression on other people's faces.

As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a gardener, a cleaner.

Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

I was a piano player before I was a poet.