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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.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
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.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
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.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
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.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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To be young, gifted and black!
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
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.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
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.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
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?
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
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.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
I'm just human, I have faults like anyone.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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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.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
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.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon