I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, … - Allen Toussaint

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That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.

Allen Toussaint

I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.

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My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.

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To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress.

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And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.

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As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.

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As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.

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