I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
NINA SIMONEThe worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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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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I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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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.
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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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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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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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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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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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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