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I love the classics but there...

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 was reared in the church fr...

I was reared in the church from the age of three. I've played piano since I was three. I performed at revivals and for my people around North Carolina for several years. People around town collected money to send me to school.

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I am particular about the sea...

I am particular about the seating of the audience - also about how much money they pay - but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to?

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I believe the time will come ...

I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.

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Since I was three I've been p...

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

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My name sounds French but tha...

My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.

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That's a very high goal to ha...

That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.

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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I ...

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

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Music is the center of my lif...

Music is the center of my life.

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By the time I was eight I was...

By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.

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As I got older though I wante...

As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was a very sheltered existence. Even though I heard blues and gospel on the radio sometimes, it was always back to the piano and study and give recitals.

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I do love to sing Jacques Bre...

I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.

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I can't stand loud guitars th...

I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.

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The pressure of show business...

The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

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I don't like to go to strange...

I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

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There are all kinds of things...

There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.

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I look forward to doing my ow...

I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.

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You can't be different if you...

You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.

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It's time to take a look at m...

It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.

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My job is not done. I address...

My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....