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Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.

Nina Simone

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
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
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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Goal Musician Study
The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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Kind Love Myself Naked People
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
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
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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Explanation Expression Feeling Poetry Soul Stage Yourself
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
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 believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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Blood Identity Memories Myself Race
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

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