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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

Nina Simone

It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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Bad Communication Live Logic People Reflection Time Yourself
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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Activity Life Myself Singer
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
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
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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Kind Love Myself Naked People
If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
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Equipment Myself Particular Thinking
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
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
I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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Day Demand Myself Perfection Practice

You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

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