Music is an art and art has its own rules.
NINA SIMONEMusic is the center of my life.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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To be young, gifted and black!
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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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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You can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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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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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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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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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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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 have a cultured manner of speaking.
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