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I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

Nina Simone

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.
NINA SIMONE

Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way
How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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Explanation Expression Feeling Poetry Soul Stage Yourself
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Important Music Myself Thinking
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Dreams Myself Show
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
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
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
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
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 have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
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
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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Dedication Introduction Music Myself Teacher World

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

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