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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

Nina Simone

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
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
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
I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.
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Classics Love Master Myself
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
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 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
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Excuse Hero Known People Young
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
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 don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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Myself Place Strange Time Travel
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
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
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

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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