I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONEMy name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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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 think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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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 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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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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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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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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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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