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" All the time, there was the weight of my community's expectations on my shoulders. "
Time
Shoulders
Community
" As a political weapon, it has helped me for 30 years defend the rights of American blacks and third-world people all over the world, to defend them with protest songs. To move the audience to make them conscious of what has been done to my people around the world. "
People
World
American
" At this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don't think you can help but be involved. "
Think
You
Day
" Desegregation is a joke. "
Joke
" Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument has? It's like being between the keys of a piano. The notes are there, you can sing them, but they can't be found on any instrument. That's like me. I live in between this. I live in both worlds, the black and white world. "
Me
Voice
World
" From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman. "
Woman
White
Man
" Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home. "
World
Think
Home
" I didn't get interested in music. It was a gift from God. "
Interested
God
Gift
" I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping. "
Like
Beat
Think
" I flirt all the time. I like men! I don't think we can do without them. "
Think
Like
Men
" 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. "
Freedom
Important
Music
" I have to be composed; I have to be poised. I have to remember what my first piano teacher told me: 'You do not touch that piano until you are ready and until they are ready to listen to you. "
Me
Listen
You
" I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear! "
Freedom
No Fear
Mean
" I'm a real rebel with a cause. "
Rebel
Cause
Real
" I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva. "
Singer
Diva
Blues
" I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going. "
Music
Over
Think
" I think that the artists who don't get involved in preaching messages probably are happier - but you see, I have to live with Nina, and that is very difficult. "
Who
You
See
" 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. "
Rise
Rich
People
" 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. "
Think
World
Top
" I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel. "
Damn
Day
Dive
" It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live. "
Live
Which
Artist
" I want to shake people up so bad, that when they leave a nightclub where I've performed, I just want them to be to pieces. "
Want
Bad
Leave
" I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs. "
Songs
Popular
Player
" 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. "
Man
Love Is
Music
" Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. "
White
Black
Jazz
" My daughter is in more competition with me. I never wanted to be bigger than my mother or to challenge her. "
Mother
Daughter
Competition
" Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world. "
Life
Teacher
My Life
" Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking. "
America
Slavery
Thinking
" Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream. "
Sometimes
Coffee
Sound
" The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators. "
Music
Generation
Politics
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