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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.

Nina Simone

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
I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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Blood Identity Memories Myself Race
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way
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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Colors Learning Mathematics Music Sadness Yourself
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
NINA SIMONE

Day Learning Myself
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
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
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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Feeling Moments Music Vibration World Yourself
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
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
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
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
You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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Artist Help Reflection Time
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
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound

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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