Eunice Kathleen Waymon Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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I don't like to go to strange places.
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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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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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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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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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My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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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?
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good.
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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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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.