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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.

Nina Simone

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
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
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
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 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 had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
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
I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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Happiness Musician Myself Sorry World
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
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
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
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
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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Death Poor Rich Rise Thinking
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing

You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.

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