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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

Nina Simone

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Learning Love Serve Table Yourself
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake 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
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Breathe Children Life Music Myself
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
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
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 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
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
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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Activity Life Myself Singer
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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Day Difficult Emotional 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
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 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 would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

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