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

Nina Simone

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
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
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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Alive Chance Dreams Feeling Myself
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
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.
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Existence Kind Music Myself
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
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
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Day Learning Myself
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
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
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
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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Dedication Introduction Music Myself Teacher World

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