"If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much"

“The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.”

“It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.”

“I'm Ready to Die without a Reasonable Doubt Smoke Chronic and hit it Doggystyle before I go out. Until they sign my Death Certificate, All Eyez on Me I'm still at it, Illmatic, and that's The Documentary.”

Source : Song: The Documentary, Album: The Documentary

“And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them. We ask, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us. We must know that we may know.”

“... Wild Bill had his faults, grievous ones, perhaps ... He would get drunk, gamble, and indulge in the general licentiousness characteristic of the border in the early days, yet even when full of the vile libel of the name of whiskey which was dealt over the bars at exorbitant prices, he was gentle as a child, unless aroused to anger by intended insults. ... He was loyal in his friendship, generous to a fault, and invariably espoused the cause of the weaker against the stronger one in a quarrel.”

“Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.”

“Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.”

Source : James Cagney (1976). “Cagney by Cagney”

“Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.”