You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
NINA SIMONEMy name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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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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Birds 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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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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Music is the center of my life.
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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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