You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
NINA SIMONESince I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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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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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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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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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Music is the center of my life.
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