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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.

Nina Simone

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
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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Day Difficult Emotional Music Myself
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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Activity Life Myself Singer
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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Music Myself
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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Explanation Expression Feeling Poetry Soul Stage Yourself
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Fear Freedom Myself
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
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
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
I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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Alive Chance Dreams Feeling Myself
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.
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Equipment Myself Particular Thinking
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember

If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.

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