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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
Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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Dedication Introduction Music Myself Teacher World
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
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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Burden Myself Planet Talent
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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Death Poor Rich Rise Thinking
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
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
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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Artist Help Reflection Time
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
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

I’m a real rebel with a cause.

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