Music is an art and art has its own rules.
NINA SIMONEMy 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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Music is the center of my life.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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 want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
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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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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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