Eunice Kathleen Waymon Quotes
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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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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 think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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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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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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 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 had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.
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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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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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I'm just human, I have faults like anyone.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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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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The Beatles are lucky, very lucky. But what has happened to them has nothing to do with them, in a sense. They came along at the right time. Attention was focused on them. They've had the chance to grow in almost any direction they wanted. Very lucky. They are not exceptionally talented.
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Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?
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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.