How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
NINA SIMONEI tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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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 don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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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 love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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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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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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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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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Music is the center of my life.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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