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Nina Simone

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 demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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Day Demand Myself Perfection Practice
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
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
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
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.
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Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
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
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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Feeling Moments Music Vibration World Yourself
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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Economics Forever Myself Rich Thinking
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
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
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
Desegregation is a joke.
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Joke Segregation
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
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
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
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
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
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
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Dreams Myself Show
I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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Blood Identity Memories Myself Race
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
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Fear Freedom Myself
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

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