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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

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
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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Myself Place Strange Time Travel
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
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
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
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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Music Myself
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
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
My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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Address Job Myself Popular See Song
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
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
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice

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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