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To be young, gifted and black!

Nina Simone

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
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
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.
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Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Equality Live Yourself
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Fear Freedom Myself
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
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
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
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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Burden Myself Planet Talent
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself

To be young, gifted and black!

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