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I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

Nina Simone

Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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Colors Learning Mathematics Music Sadness Yourself
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
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time
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
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
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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Failure Start Success Time Work
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
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
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
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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Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
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
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Learning Love Serve Table Yourself
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
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

I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

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