Eunice Kathleen Waymon Quotes
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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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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn't recognize my voice.
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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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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good.
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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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"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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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.
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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 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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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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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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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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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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That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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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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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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Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
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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.
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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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.