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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.

Nina Simone

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
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
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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Existence Kind Music Myself
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
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
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
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
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
I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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Day Demand Myself Perfection Practice
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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Music Myself
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak

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