Gil scott-heron

I found my grandmother dead. It shook me up. I got up to make her breakfast, and I knew it was strange that she wasn't stirring. I went in to wake her, and she was laying in rigor mortis, and I'm...

I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these changes that were necessary and talked about it as important have been made, like, people go to school...

I thought that some of my best records was when there wasn't a lot of work being done on it, like 'Winter in America' and 'Secrets' and when there weren't a whole lot of people in the studios.

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.

Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day.

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.

Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.

Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me.