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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 feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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Alive Chance Dreams Feeling 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
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
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
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
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 had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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Dedication Excellence Freedom Music Myself Pursue
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
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Beginning Black Woman
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
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
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
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
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 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
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
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Equipment Myself Particular Thinking
I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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Myself See Tree Wine
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
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Life Music Thinking Way
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
NINA SIMONE

Learning Serve Yourself
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
NINA SIMONE

Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong

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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