"Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain."
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"Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory."
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"In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill."
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"The worst crime is faking it."
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"I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old."
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"It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you."
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"My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York."
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"To keep creating you have to be about change."
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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare"
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"A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't."
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"Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you."
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"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
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"I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach."
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"Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes."
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"Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances."
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"Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels."
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"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."
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"If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are."
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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
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"Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you."
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