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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.

Nina Simone

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
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Excuse Hero Known People Young
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
NINA SIMONE

Breathe Children Life Music Myself
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.
NINA SIMONE

Awareness Different Gift Myself Thankful Work
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
NINA SIMONE

Children Gift Help People
I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
NINA SIMONE

Alive Chance Dreams Feeling Myself
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
NINA SIMONE

Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
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
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.
NINA SIMONE

Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice

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