Many times I feel different like a different person.
NINA SIMONEI don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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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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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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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’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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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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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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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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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 do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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