Many times I feel different like a different person.
NINA SIMONEIt was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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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 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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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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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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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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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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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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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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