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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 don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
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
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
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
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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Day Difficult Emotional 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
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
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
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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Death Poor Rich Rise Thinking
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 try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Day Learning Myself

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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