I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
NINA SIMONEI’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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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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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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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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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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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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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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It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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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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Music is the center of my life.
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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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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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