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Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!

Nina Simone

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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Day Demand Myself Perfection Practice
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
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
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
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
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
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
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
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
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Equality Live Yourself
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself

Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!

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