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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

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
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 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
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
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself 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
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
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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Death Poor Rich Rise Thinking
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
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
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself 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
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
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

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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