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Nina Simone

It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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Existence Kind Music Myself
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Doctor Music Myself Yourself
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
NINA SIMONE

Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
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
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
My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
NINA SIMONE

Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Equality Live Yourself
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
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
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 love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.
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Classics Love Master Myself
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing

I have a cultured manner of speaking.

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