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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.

Nina Simone

It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way
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’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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Love Man Myself Pay Rich Sea Water
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
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
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
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
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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Burden Myself Planet Talent
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time

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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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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