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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.

Nina Simone

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.
NINA SIMONE

Fly Myself Old Sun World
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
NINA SIMONE

Equality Live Yourself
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
I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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Myself See Tree Wine
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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Colors Learning Mathematics Music Sadness Yourself
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
NINA SIMONE

Breathe Children Life Music Myself
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
NINA SIMONE

Abolish Slave Thinking Way
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
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Equipment Myself Particular Thinking
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
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
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
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
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.

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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.

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