Quote Tag

A performer learns with experience and with age. I did not know the future when I left home and started out to begin my career: I started qawaali; then I met Peter Gabriel and was exposed to a lot of new ideas.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, , beyond science. The moods , qualities of nature , the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

For people who use Google Wallet, the experience works.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.