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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

Nina Simone

Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
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
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
It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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Existence Kind Music 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
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
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 think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Important Music Myself Thinking
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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Difficult Hard Money Rule Standard Yourself
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

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

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