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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

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.
NINA SIMONE

Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Breathe Children Life Music Myself
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
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
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
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
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
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
NINA SIMONE

Learning Serve Yourself
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
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Equality Live Yourself
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
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
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

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