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Music is the center of my life.

Nina Simone

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
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
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Important Music Myself Thinking
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Day Learning Myself
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
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
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Beginning Black Woman
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
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
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
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
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
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
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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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.
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Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
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
I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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Alive Chance Dreams Feeling Myself
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
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
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
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

Music is the center of my life.

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