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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.

Nina Simone

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONE

Doctor Music Myself Yourself
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.
NINA SIMONE

Bad Communication Live Logic People Reflection Time Yourself
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
NINA SIMONE

Day Difficult Emotional Music Myself
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
NINA SIMONE

Equality Live Yourself
I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
NINA SIMONE

Alive Chance Dreams Feeling Myself
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
NINA SIMONE

Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
NINA SIMONE

Kind Love Myself Naked People
I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
NINA SIMONE

Happiness Musician Myself Sorry World
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
NINA SIMONE

Human Mistake Myself
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
NINA SIMONE

Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
NINA SIMONE

Different Myself Thinking
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
NINA SIMONE

Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONE

Black Definition Myself People
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
NINA SIMONE

Breathe Children Life Music Myself
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
NINA SIMONE

Important Music Myself Thinking
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
NINA SIMONE

Instrument Myself Writing

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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