I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
NINA SIMONEWhat is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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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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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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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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Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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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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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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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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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 an art and art has its own rules.
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