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"Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing."
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"It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible."
Love
"Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing."
Idea
"The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts."
People
"When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out."
Music
"Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults."
Children
"Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time."
Home
"Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that."
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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
Parents
"I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories."
Poetry
"But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing."
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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"
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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
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"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."
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"There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas."
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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
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"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"
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"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
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"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"
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"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."
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"I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint."
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