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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.

Nina Simone

My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
NINA SIMONE

Home Name Sound Stage
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
NINA SIMONE

Music Myself
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
NINA SIMONE

Day Learning Myself
It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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Failure Start Success Time Work
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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Burden Myself Planet Talent
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONE

Doctor Music Myself Yourself
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
NINA SIMONE

Feeling Moments Music Vibration World Yourself
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
NINA SIMONE

Depression Slave Sorrow Time
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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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.
NINA SIMONE

Equipment Myself Particular Thinking
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
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.
NINA SIMONE

Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
NINA SIMONE

Ideas Myself Writing
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONE

Black Definition Myself People

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