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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

Nina Simone

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
NINA SIMONE

Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
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
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
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
NINA SIMONE

Crazy Drive Home Myself World
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
NINA SIMONE

Learning Love Serve Table 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
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
NINA SIMONE

Music Myself
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
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
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONE

Black Definition Myself People
It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
NINA SIMONE

Bad Communication Live Logic People Reflection Time Yourself
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
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
NINA SIMONE

Goal Musician Study
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
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
Music is the center of my life.
NINA SIMONE

Life Music One Liner
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning 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
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONE

Doctor Music Myself 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
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
NINA SIMONE

Reality Revolution Talk
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
NINA SIMONE

Instrument Myself Writing
Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
NINA SIMONE

Fly Myself Old Sun World
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
NINA SIMONE

Art Music Rule

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

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