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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.

Nina Simone

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
NINA SIMONE

Depression Slave Sorrow Time
Music is the center of my life.
NINA SIMONE

Life Music One Liner
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
NINA SIMONE

Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
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
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Breathe Children Life Music Myself
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
NINA SIMONE

Economics Forever Myself Rich Thinking
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONE

Doctor Music Myself Yourself
It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
NINA SIMONE

Failure Start Success Time Work
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
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
NINA SIMONE

Live World Yourself
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
NINA SIMONE

Day Difficult Emotional Music Myself
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Beginning Black Woman
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage

Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.

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