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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

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
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner 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.
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Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
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 don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
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
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Day Learning Myself
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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Angry Enough Kind Prejudice Worst Yourself
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
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
Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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Fly Myself Old Sun World
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
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

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