I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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.
I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.