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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.

Nina Simone

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
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
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Life Music Thinking Way
I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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Happiness Musician Myself Sorry World
My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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Address Job Myself Popular See Song
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Reality Reason Rebel
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
NINA SIMONE

Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
NINA SIMONE

Burden Myself Planet Talent
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
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
NINA SIMONE

Day Difficult Emotional Music Myself
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
NINA SIMONE

Abolish Slave Thinking Way
To be young, gifted and black!
NINA SIMONE

Black One Liner Young
You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
NINA SIMONE

Artist Help Reflection Time
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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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

I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.

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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.

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