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

Nina Simone

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
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
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
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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Dedication Introduction Music Myself Teacher World
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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Feeling Moments Music Vibration World Yourself
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
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Dreams Myself Show
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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Economics Forever Myself Rich Thinking
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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Couple Excitement Intense Love Myself Reading
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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