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

Nina Simone

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
It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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Failure Start Success Time Work
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
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
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
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
I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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Myself Place Strange Time Travel
I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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Couple Excitement Intense Love Myself Reading
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
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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Blood Identity Memories Myself Race
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
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
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
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
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
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Equality Live Yourself
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
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
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
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Life Music Thinking Way
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself

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

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