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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.

Nina Simone

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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Fear Freedom Myself
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
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
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
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
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
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.
NINA SIMONE

Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way
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
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
I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.
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Classics Love Master Myself

My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.

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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.

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