Many times I feel different like a different person.
NINA SIMONESince I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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