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Nina Simone

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
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
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 had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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Dedication Excellence Freedom Music Myself Pursue
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
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
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 had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
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
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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Alive Chance Dreams Feeling Myself
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
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
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time

I have a cultured manner of speaking.

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