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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.

Nina Simone

Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
NINA SIMONE

Day Difficult Emotional Music Myself
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
NINA SIMONE

Important Music Myself Thinking
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
NINA SIMONE

Instrument Myself Writing
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
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
NINA SIMONE

Fear Freedom Myself
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
NINA SIMONE

Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
NINA SIMONE

Alive Chance Dreams Feeling Myself
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
NINA SIMONE

Goal Musician Study
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONE

Reality Reason Rebel
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
NINA SIMONE

Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
NINA SIMONE

Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
NINA SIMONE

Learning Love Serve Table 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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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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