I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die. |
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 try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel. |
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. |
I'm a real rebel with a cause. |
It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best. |
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. |
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things -- all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play. |
Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was. |
My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela. |
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. |
Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking. |
slowly grows? |
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. |
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. |