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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

The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
NINA SIMONE

Kind Love Myself Naked People
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
NINA SIMONE

Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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Couple Excitement Intense Love Myself Reading
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONE

Doctor Music Myself Yourself
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
NINA SIMONE

Fly Myself Old Sun World
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.
NINA SIMONE

Feeling Moments Music Vibration World Yourself
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
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
NINA SIMONE

Live World Yourself
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
NINA SIMONE

Artist Reflection Time
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
NINA SIMONE

Music Myself People Play
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.
NINA SIMONE

Existence Kind Music Myself

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

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