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I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.

Nina Simone

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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Economics Forever Myself Rich Thinking
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
You can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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Awareness Different Gift Myself Thankful Work
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.
NINA SIMONE

Classics Love Master Myself
I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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Happiness Musician Myself Sorry World
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
NINA SIMONE

Live World Yourself
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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Angry Enough Kind Prejudice Worst Yourself
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
NINA SIMONE

Goal Musician Study
I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
NINA SIMONE

Myself See Tree Wine
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
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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Easy Feeling Life Myself People
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
NINA SIMONE

Learning Serve Yourself
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.
NINA SIMONE

Fly Myself Old Sun World
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

I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.

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