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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

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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Explanation Expression Feeling Poetry Soul Stage 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
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 would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World 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
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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Easy Feeling Life Myself People
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
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
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
It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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Existence Kind Music Myself
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
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
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

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

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