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I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

Nina Simone

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
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
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
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
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Important Music Myself Thinking
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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Happiness Musician Myself Sorry World
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
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
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
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 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 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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