Top 34 Quotes by Gil Scott-Heron

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.

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.

Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

You have to learn and keep learning.

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

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.

I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why.