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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’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
My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
NINA SIMONE

Music Myself
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
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 have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live 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
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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Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
NINA SIMONE

Day Learning Myself
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
NINA SIMONE

Alive Chance Dreams Feeling Myself
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself

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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