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"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."
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"I'm a nudist at heart."
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"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?"
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"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."
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"Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?"
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"The ear is the avenue to the heart."
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"Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text."
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"The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds."
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"The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe."
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"Now mine eyes see the heart that once we did search for, and I fear this heart shall be mended, nevermore."
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"The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs."
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"Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work."
Education
"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."
Music
"You've got to change with the public's taste."
Change
"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."
Thought
"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."
Day
"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
"I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music."
Music
"I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself."
Movies
"There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!"
Income
"If I could read it, I could play it."
Play
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