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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

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.
NINA SIMONE

Death Poor Rich Rise Thinking
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
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
My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
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
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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Bad Communication Live Logic People Reflection Time Yourself
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
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 play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
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
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
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
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
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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Burden Myself Planet Talent

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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