[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.

I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't tell 'em.

So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.

Always look ahead, but never look back.

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.

It's a different ballgame now, so that lets [teo] Macero out. He's always complainin', always sick.