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.
NINA SIMONEMusic is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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 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 play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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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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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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Desegregation is a joke.
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Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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 had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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