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I didn't get interested in music. It was a gift from God.

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I have to be composed; I have to be poised. I have to remember what my first piano teacher told me: 'You do not touch that piano until you are ready and until they are ready to listen to you.

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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.

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This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.

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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.

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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

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

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The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators.

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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

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My daughter is in more competition with me. I never wanted to be bigger than my mother or to challenge her.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: February 21st, 1933

Died: April 21st, 2003

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