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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Beginning Black Woman
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
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.
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Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
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.
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Address Job Myself Popular See Song
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.
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Easy Feeling Life Myself People
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Dreams Myself Show
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
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.
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Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
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.
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Existence Kind Music Myself
The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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Kind Love Myself Naked People
Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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Colors Learning Mathematics Music Sadness Yourself
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Important Music Myself Thinking

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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