I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
NINA SIMONEThis is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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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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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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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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It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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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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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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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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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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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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Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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