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Nina Simone

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
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
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Equality Live Yourself
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
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
How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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Explanation Expression Feeling Poetry Soul Stage Yourself
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
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
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing 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
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
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

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