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Nina Simone

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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Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Ideas Myself Writing
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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Crazy Drive Home Myself World
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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Dedication Excellence Freedom Music Myself Pursue
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
Music is the center of my life.
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Life Music One Liner
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
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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Love Man Myself Pay Rich Sea Water
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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Goal Musician Study
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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Difficult Hard Money Rule Standard Yourself
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Fear Freedom Myself
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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Music Myself People Play
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Live World Yourself
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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Couple Excitement Intense Love Myself Reading
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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Activity Life Myself Singer
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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Death Poor Rich Rise Thinking
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
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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Kind Love Myself Naked People
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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Myself See Tree Wine
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Important Music Myself Thinking
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Alive Black People Time
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Culture Myself Speak
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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Angry Enough Kind Prejudice Worst Yourself

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