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" Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free. "
Critics
Records
Get
" For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death. "
Nothing
People
Play
" Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking. "
Stop
Television
People
" I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen. "
American
Rights
I Am
" I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist. "
Jazz
I Am
Artist
" I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself. "
Feeling
Stand
Sight
" If I could read it, I could play it. "
Could
Read
Play
" I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value. "
Business
You
Value
" I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it. "
Heart
Because
Singer
" I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories. "
Like
Sitting
Down
" I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music. "
Bring
People
Music
" I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money. "
Purpose
Music
Money
" I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy. "
Trying
Night
Day
" I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes. "
Her
Proud
Way
" I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers. "
Help
Myself
Wonder
" It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing. "
Create
Who
Racial
" I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South. "
Some
Thought
Hurt
" Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping. "
You
Say
Music
" Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work. "
Work
Good
Time
" People don't slip. Time catches up with them. "
People
Up
Time
" Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables. "
Vegetables
Food
Toy
" The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear. "
Just
Prejudice
Advertising
" The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally. "
Racing
Horse
Horse Racing
" The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it. "
People
Music
Know
" There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax! "
One Thing
Tax
Money
" The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do. "
Soon
Know
Hit
" The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences? "
Court
Chance
Hard
" The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things. "
Got
You
Things
" You've got to change with the public's taste. "
Change
You
Taste
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