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Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!

Nina Simone

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONE

Doctor Music Myself Yourself
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
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
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 feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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Alive Chance Dreams Feeling Myself
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
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Excuse Hero Known People Young
It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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Bad Communication Live Logic People Reflection Time Yourself
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
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.
NINA SIMONE

Classics Love Master Myself
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
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
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People

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