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Abbey Lincoln

"But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying."

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Akiroq Brost

"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."

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Akiroq Brost

"But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying."

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Akiroq Brost

"There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'"

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Akiroq Brost

"Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all."

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Akiroq Brost

"Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?"

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Akiroq Brost

"As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'."

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Akiroq Brost

"When you make a bet, you're saying something."

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Akiroq Brost

"If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it."

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Akiroq Brost

"You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you."

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Abbey Lincoln
"But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying."

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Abbey Lincoln
"It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter."

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Abbey Lincoln
"I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas."

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Abbey Lincoln
"I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music."

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Abbey Lincoln
"I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow."

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Abbey Lincoln
"I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do."

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Abbey Lincoln
"There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be."

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