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"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."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"
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"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."
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"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."
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"Music is not my life. My life is music."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
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"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."
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"I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel."
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"I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going."
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"I'm a real rebel with a cause."
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"To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music."
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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 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."
Being
"Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home."
Home
"From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman."
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"Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music."
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"Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking."
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