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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
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"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."
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"America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man."
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"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."
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"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."
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"To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing."
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"I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling."
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"Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America."
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"Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America."
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"More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible."
Music
"I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women."
Music
"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory."
Education
"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
Mistake
"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
Books
"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."
Criticism
"For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift."
Music
"I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary."
Opinion
"I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary."
Age
"Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself."
Music
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