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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.

Nina Simone

Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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Colors Learning Mathematics Music Sadness Yourself
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Dreams Myself Show
I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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Happiness Musician Myself Sorry World
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
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
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
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
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
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
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
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
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way

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