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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.

Nina Simone

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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Music Myself People Play
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
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 don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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Music Myself
Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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Easy Feeling Life Myself People
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Day Learning Myself
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
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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Feeling Moments Music Vibration World Yourself
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
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
It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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Existence Kind Music Myself

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.

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