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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.

Nina Simone

My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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Address Job Myself Popular See Song
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
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
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
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
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
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Life Music Thinking Way
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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Day Difficult Emotional Music Myself
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
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
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
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’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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Happiness Musician Myself Sorry World

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