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I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.

Nina Simone

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  Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

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  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.

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  Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

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  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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  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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  I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.

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

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  Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.

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