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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

When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
NINA SIMONE

Children Gift Help People
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
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
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
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
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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Dedication Introduction Music Myself Teacher World
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
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
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
Music is the center of my life.
NINA SIMONE

Life Music One Liner

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

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