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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

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
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
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
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
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Day Learning Myself
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
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 was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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Activity Life Myself Singer
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
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
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
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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Feeling Moments Music Vibration World Yourself
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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Alone Feeling Listening Myself People

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

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