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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.

Nina Simone

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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Crazy Drive Home Myself World
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 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
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
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
Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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Dedication Introduction Music Myself Teacher World
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
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
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 do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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Couple Excitement Intense Love Myself Reading
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
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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Myself Place Strange Time Travel
Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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Easy Feeling Life Myself People
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Fear Freedom Myself
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember

You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.

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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.

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