I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
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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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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.
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You know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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