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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.

Nina Simone

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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Bad Communication Live Logic People Reflection Time Yourself
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Mindset Music Myself Theory
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
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
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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Difficult Hard Money Rule Standard Yourself
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People

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