Eunice Kathleen Waymon Quotes
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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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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There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.
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I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
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I was reared in the church from the age of three. I've played piano since I was three. I performed at revivals and for my people around North Carolina for several years. People around town collected money to send me to school.
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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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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
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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 play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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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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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
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I don't like to go to strange places.
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As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was a very sheltered existence. Even though I heard blues and gospel on the radio sometimes, it was always back to the piano and study and give recitals.
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My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.
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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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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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Desegregation is a joke.
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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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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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It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good.