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I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.

Nina Simone

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
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
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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Failure Start Success Time Work
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 just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
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
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
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
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
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
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
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

I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.

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I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.

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