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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.

Nina Simone

I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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Myself Place Strange Time Travel
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
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
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 try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Day Learning Myself
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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Death Poor Rich Rise Thinking
Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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Easy Feeling Life Myself People
How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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Explanation Expression Feeling Poetry Soul Stage Yourself
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Learning Love Serve Table Yourself
Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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Dedication Introduction Music Myself Teacher World
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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Couple Excitement Intense Love Myself Reading
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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Goal Musician Study
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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Angry Enough Kind Prejudice Worst Yourself
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 think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.

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