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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

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
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Learning Love Serve Table Yourself
It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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Bad Communication Live Logic People Reflection Time Yourself
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World 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
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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Love Man Myself Pay Rich Sea Water
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
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
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
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
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

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