Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
NINA SIMONEI don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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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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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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