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"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."

"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."

"Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford."

"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print."
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"Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home."

"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."

"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."

"I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going."

"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 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."

"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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