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Nina Simone

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.
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Feeling Moments Music Vibration World 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
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
My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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Address Job Myself Popular See Song
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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Difficult Hard Money Rule Standard Yourself
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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Fly Myself Old Sun World
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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Kind Love Myself Naked People
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Breathe Children Life Music Myself
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
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.
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Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice

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