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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

Nina Simone

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
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
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
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 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
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
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 think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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Death Poor Rich Rise Thinking
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
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 look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Dreams Myself Show
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
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
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

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