The best Quotes by Gil Scott-Heron

The best Quotes by Gil Scott-Heron

Gilbert Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) was an American jazz poet, singer, musician, and author known for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His collaborative efforts with musician Brian Jackson fused jazz, blues, and soul with lyrics relative to social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles.

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.

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Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

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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.

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Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

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My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.

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You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

Ralph Kiner

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Why are there so many Latina's in Illinois?
Because that's where the Chica go.

Chicago Illinois

Take me away, like I overdosed on cocaine
Or take me away like a bullet from Kurt Cobain, suicide
I'm from a windy city like Do or Die

The Game - My Life, Album: LAX

Kurt Cobain Chicago

You can leave Chicago, but it will never leave you.

Village idiot? Hello, Chicago is a city, not a village, and the best city in the world!

Lydia Berman in Thunder Force

Looking at Chicago from outside the city in daylight is one of the most depressing sights in the world.

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Two-thirty, baby, won't you meet me by The Bean?
Too early, maybe later you can show me things
You know what it is, whenever I visit
Windy city, she blowin' me kisses

Drake - Chicago Freestyle, Album: D6

There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.

Rahm Emanuel

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

Studs Terkel

Chicago Corruption

My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.

Karen Fairchild

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Michael Douglas

New York City Chicago Hollywood

I miss everything about Chicago - except January and February.

Chicago January February

Chicago is my hometown and will always have a special place in my heart.

Kenneth Choi

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The best creative no longer has to originate in Chicago or London; it will be coming from Stockholm, Tokyo, and Seoul as well.

Richard Edelman

Stockholm London Chicago Seoul Tokyo

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Chicago - which is kinda the same.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Illinois - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

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"Ah, music"' he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!"

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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Music is reflection of self

Eminem - Sing For The Moment, Album: The Eminem Show

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

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