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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.

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
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
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 tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Fear Freedom Myself
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Equality Live Yourself
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Learning Love Serve Table Yourself
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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Love Man Myself Pay Rich Sea Water
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
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

Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.

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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.

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