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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

Nina Simone

That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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Goal Musician Study
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
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
Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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Fly Myself Old Sun World
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
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
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
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
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.
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Economics Forever Myself Rich Thinking

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