"I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important."

Music, Excellence, Freedom, Now

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"I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important."

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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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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

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"When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could."

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"When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music."

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"It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it."

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"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."

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"What kind of songs do you like? she asked."The ones that remind me of you," I said."

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"I usually think in terms of music."

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"It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry."

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"Music has the ability to express in the upbeat every brilliant aspect of existence, while on the downbeat convey the anguish that a human being experiences when apprehending the fleeting nature of time, and the mysterious torture of living and dying. Music stands alone in its ability to communicate the symbols and phases of life, both being and nonbeing."

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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."

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"Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world."

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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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"There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were."

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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."

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"From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman."

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"I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important."

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"Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking."

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