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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

Nina Simone

Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
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.
NINA SIMONE

Awareness Different Gift Myself Thankful Work
Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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Colors Learning Mathematics Music Sadness Yourself
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Excuse Hero Known People Young
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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Happiness Musician Myself Sorry World
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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Fly Myself Old Sun World
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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Goal Musician Study
It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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Difficult Hard Money Rule Standard Yourself
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time

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