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I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.

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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
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
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Fear Freedom Myself
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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Burden Myself Planet Talent
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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Music Myself People Play
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Excuse Hero Known People Young
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
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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Dedication Excellence Freedom Music Myself Pursue
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
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
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.
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Angry Enough Kind Prejudice Worst Yourself

I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.

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I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.

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