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Nina Simone

Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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Dedication Introduction Music Myself Teacher World
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
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.
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Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
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
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Equality Live Yourself
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Breathe Children Life Music Myself
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
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
My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play

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