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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Nina Simone

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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Classics Love Master Myself
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
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
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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Burden Myself Planet Talent
It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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Difficult Hard Money Rule Standard 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
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 know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
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
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
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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Music Myself
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
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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