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7898 Musician Quotes

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

Computer Got Like Man
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

Bowl Goldfish Like Living
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L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.

Good Good Place Grow Old
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I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

Buried Day Dead Gospel
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I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.

Fantasize Marry McCartney Paul
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I can't do anything in moderation.

Anything I Moderation Do
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To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.
Got Great Liar Memory
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

Done Journey Learn Lot
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MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

Albums Dough Heavy Huge
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I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.

About Always Care Fame
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
Meant Meant To Be Music Perfect
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I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.
Boring Ever Grow Up
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I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

Gadgets Machine Never Producer
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Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.

Appear Ever Factor Forget
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Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.

Go Know People Should
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.

Astrology Much Believe Genetics
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There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
Excuse Young Heroes Heroines
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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.

Rich Poor Black Rise
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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.

Rich Cave Economic World
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Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
Slavery Abolished Thinking
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

Swim Damn Scuba Dive
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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.

Worst Kind Prejudice Angry
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Jazz Black Classical
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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.

Spent Pursuing Classical
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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.

Like man Rich Sailboat Music
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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.

Studying Black Concert Pianists
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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served
Learn Table Love Served
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

Freedom Fear
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You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Help Artist Concerned Reflect
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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze drifting' on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I'm feeling good I'm feeling good

Birds Flying Sky Breeze
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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

Kept Sane Thing Myself
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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

Life Short Easy Feel
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.

Love Wind Cares Satisfy
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I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep

Believe Races Quotes Color
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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

Feels Stage Poetry Sinks
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
Talent Burden Joy Planet
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

World Yourself Live
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Learn Get up Love Served
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It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good.
New Dawn Feeling Good
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Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.
Jazz Music Life Being
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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

Live Give Equality
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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.

Alive Life Chance Dreamed
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I'm a real rebel with a cause.

Real Rebel Cause
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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.

Feel Listen People
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I'm just human, I have faults like anyone

Human Fault Anyone
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

Happened Child Music Life
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There's no excuse for the young...

Excuse Young
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I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

Sorry World's Classic Pianist
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.
Emotional Difficulties Mother Singing
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Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood,

Misunderstood Song Written Simone
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