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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

Nina Simone

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
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
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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Dedication Excellence Freedom Music Myself Pursue
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 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
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
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
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
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
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
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Equality Live Yourself
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
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

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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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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