Eunice Kathleen Waymon Quotes
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I'm feeling good I'm feeling good
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I can read and arrange, but I can't write.
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
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You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.
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You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
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My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.
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I don't like to go to strange places.
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I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep.
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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.
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I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
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Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing... Oh my God! Ooh... Wow... You can see colors through music. Anything!
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"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
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That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die.
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It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good.
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I am particular about the seating of the audience - also about how much money they pay - but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to?