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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

Nina Simone

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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Dedication Excellence Freedom Music Myself Pursue
Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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Easy Feeling Life Myself People
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
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 look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Dreams Myself Show
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
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
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
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
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
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
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
I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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Love Man Myself Pay Rich Sea Water

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