It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual
It feels so good to be happy.
I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.
When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feelings, good feelings, ups and downs, highs and lows, that kind of thing.
The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.
At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.
In some ways, it's my rage that keeps me going.
When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
The two things you can't fake are good food and good music
The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.
To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.
To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.
Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.
The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.
Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.
Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.