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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.

Nina Simone

I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.
NINA SIMONE

Classics Love Master Myself
Desegregation is a joke.
NINA SIMONE

Joke Segregation
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
NINA SIMONE

Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
NINA SIMONE

Depression Slave Sorrow Time
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
NINA SIMONE

Goal Musician Study
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
NINA SIMONE

Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
NINA SIMONE

Day Myself People Politics Singer
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?
NINA SIMONE

Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
NINA SIMONE

Live World Yourself
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
NINA SIMONE

Home Name Sound Stage
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONE

Black Definition Myself People
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.
NINA SIMONE

Awareness Different Gift Myself Thankful Work
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
NINA SIMONE

Equality Live Yourself
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONE

Doctor Music Myself Yourself
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
NINA SIMONE

Art Music Rule
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
NINA SIMONE

Life Music Thinking Way

I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.

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