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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

Nina Simone

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
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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Myself See Tree Wine
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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Crazy Drive Home Myself World
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
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
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
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
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
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
You can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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Awareness Different Gift Myself Thankful Work

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

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