Eunice Kathleen Waymon Quotes
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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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That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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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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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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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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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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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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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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 know I'm different, but I don't think about it.
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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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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 was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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 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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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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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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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.