I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
NINA SIMONEEverything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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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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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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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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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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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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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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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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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