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Nina Simone

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
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
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
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
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 would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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Love Man Myself Pay Rich Sea Water
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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Burden Myself Planet Talent
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
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Excuse Hero Known People Young
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Fear Freedom Myself
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
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
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
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

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