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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

Nina Simone

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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Dedication Excellence Freedom Music Myself Pursue
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
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
I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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Blood Identity Memories Myself Race
I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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Couple Excitement Intense Love Myself Reading
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
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
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 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
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
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 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
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
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
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
The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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Kind Love Myself Naked People

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