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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

Nina Simone

I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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Music Myself
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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Activity Life Myself Singer
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Beginning Black Woman
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Breathe Children Life Music Myself
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time
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
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.
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Fly Myself Old Sun World
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
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.
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Awareness Different Gift Myself Thankful Work
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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Failure Start Success Time Work
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
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.
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Feeling Moments Music Vibration World Yourself
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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Day Difficult Emotional Music Myself

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