Eunice Kathleen Waymon Quotes
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I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I'll leave it to them.
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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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 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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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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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.
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My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.
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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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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn't recognize my voice.
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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.
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The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.
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It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good.
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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice.
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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 would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
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I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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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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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music... Whew... you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.