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 SIMONEOnce 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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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 made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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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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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 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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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of 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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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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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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