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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

Nina Simone

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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Economics Forever Myself Rich Thinking
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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Day Difficult Emotional Music Myself
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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Artist Help Reflection Time
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
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
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Life Music Thinking Way
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
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
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.
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Awareness Different Gift Myself Thankful Work
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Breathe Children Life Music Myself
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’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
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
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

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