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

Nina Simone

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
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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Crazy Drive Home Myself World
I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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Blood Identity Memories Myself Race
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Equality Live Yourself
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
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 think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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Death Poor Rich Rise Thinking
You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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Artist Help Reflection Time
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time
I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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Day Demand Myself Perfection Practice
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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Easy Feeling Life Myself People
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
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning 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
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
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
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
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
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.
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Classics Love Master Myself
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself

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

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