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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

Nina Simone

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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Music Myself People Play
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
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
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
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
You can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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Awareness Different Gift Myself Thankful Work
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
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
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
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Life Music 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
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

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