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Nina Simone

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
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
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
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
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
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
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
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
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
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
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself

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