Eunice Kathleen Waymon Quotes
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Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are going to be true to yourself. And if you don't do it - and you are an artist - it punishes you.
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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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 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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When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
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It's a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.
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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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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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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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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.
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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.