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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

Nina Simone

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
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
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
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
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
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
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
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
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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Economics Forever Myself Rich Thinking
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
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
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

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