“Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.”

I have a cultured manner of speaking.

You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.

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.

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.

It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.

You can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.

I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

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

Many times I feel different like a different person.

Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.

Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

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

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

It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.

To be young, gifted and black!

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that’s not me.

Giving customers and prospects a glimpse into the entrepreneur’s life and mindset can allow them to cultivate a deeper relationship with customers separately from the brand.

We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.

When feelings of inadequacy come creeping in, let’s park our minds in God’s truth.

We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-moment lives.

If you have kids who are struggling with dyslexia, the greatest gift you can give them is the sense that nothing is unattainable. With dyslexia comes a very great gift, which is the way that your mind can think creatively.