I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
NINA SIMONEIt’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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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 play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Music is the center of my life.
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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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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 look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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