” 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. “
” I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping. “
” I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going. “
” I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second. “
” Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. “
” To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music. “
” Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world. “
” 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. “
” 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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