Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
NINA SIMONEI’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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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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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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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 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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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 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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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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Music is the center of my life.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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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 think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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