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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.

Nina Simone

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
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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Burden Myself Planet Talent
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
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
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
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
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
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
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
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
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 play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind

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