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

Nina Simone

You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
NINA SIMONE

Equality Live Yourself
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
NINA SIMONE

Culture Myself Speak
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
NINA SIMONE

Breathe Children Life Music Myself
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.
NINA SIMONE

Economics Forever Myself Rich Thinking
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.
NINA SIMONE

Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
NINA SIMONE

Instrument Myself Writing
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
NINA SIMONE

Abolish Slave Thinking Way
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
NINA SIMONE

Dreams Myself Show
I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
NINA SIMONE

Alive Chance Dreams Feeling Myself
To be young, gifted and black!
NINA SIMONE

Black One Liner Young
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.
NINA SIMONE

Equipment Myself Particular Thinking
I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
NINA SIMONE

Day Demand Myself Perfection Practice
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
NINA SIMONE

Live World Yourself
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
Many times I feel different like a different person.
NINA SIMONE

Different Feeling Person Time
Music is the center of my life.
NINA SIMONE

Life Music One Liner

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

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