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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.

Nina Simone

Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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Dedication Excellence Freedom Music Myself Pursue
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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Angry Enough Kind Prejudice Worst 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
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
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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Bad Communication Live Logic People Reflection Time Yourself
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 demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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Day Demand Myself Perfection Practice
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Excuse Hero Known People Young
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
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
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 don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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Myself Place Strange Time Travel

You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.

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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.

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