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"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."
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"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."
"I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going."
"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."
"This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet."
"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."
"Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home."
"To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music."
"The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough."
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