I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
NINA SIMONEEvery day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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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I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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