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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.

Nina Simone

I’m a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONE

Reality Reason Rebel
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.
NINA SIMONE

Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way
Desegregation is a joke.
NINA SIMONE

Joke Segregation
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
Music is the center of my life.
NINA SIMONE

Life Music One Liner
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
NINA SIMONE

Culture Myself Speak
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
NINA SIMONE

Human Mistake Myself
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
NINA SIMONE

Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
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

Myself See Tree Wine
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
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONE

Doctor Music Myself Yourself
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

Day Demand Myself Perfection Practice
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
NINA SIMONE

Activity Life Myself Singer
I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
NINA SIMONE

Happiness Musician Myself Sorry World

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