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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

Nina Simone

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 have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Fear Freedom Myself
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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Kind Love Myself Naked People
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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Burden Myself Planet Talent
I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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Myself See Tree Wine
Music is the center of my life.
NINA SIMONE

Life Music One Liner
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
NINA SIMONE

Important Music Myself Thinking
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

I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

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