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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.

Nina Simone

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 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.
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Life Music One Liner
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Day Learning Myself
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
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
How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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Explanation Expression Feeling Poetry Soul Stage Yourself
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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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
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
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 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
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
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.
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Fly Myself Old Sun World
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People

Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.

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