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

Nina Simone

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONE

Doctor Music Myself Yourself
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
NINA SIMONE

Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
NINA SIMONE

Day Difficult Emotional Music Myself
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
NINA SIMONE

Instrument Myself Writing
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
NINA SIMONE

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

Black Definition Myself People
The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
NINA SIMONE

Kind Love Myself Naked People
Desegregation is a joke.
NINA SIMONE

Joke Segregation
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
NINA SIMONE

Fear Freedom Myself
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
NINA SIMONE

Learning Love Serve Table Yourself
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
NINA SIMONE

Excuse Hero Known People Young
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
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
NINA SIMONE

Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
Many times I feel different like a different person.
NINA SIMONE

Different Feeling Person Time
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONE

Reality Reason Rebel

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

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