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

Nina Simone

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Breathe Children Life Music Myself
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
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 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
Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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Colors Learning Mathematics Music Sadness Yourself
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 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
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Day Learning Myself
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Beginning Black Woman
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
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Learning Love Serve Table Yourself
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
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
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
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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Music Myself People Play
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
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
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
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
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
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory

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

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