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Music is an art and art has its own rules.

Nina Simone

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
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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Music Myself People Play
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 feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
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
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
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Life Music Thinking Way
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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Goal Musician Study
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
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
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Learning Love Serve Table Yourself
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake 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
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

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