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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.

Nina Simone

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time
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
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
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
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
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 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
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
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’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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Difficult Hard Money Rule Standard Yourself
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
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
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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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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