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.
NINA SIMONEBirds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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Music is the center of my life.
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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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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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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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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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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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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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