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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

Nina Simone

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 a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
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
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
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time
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
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
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
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
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
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 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
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Fear Freedom Myself

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