This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
NINA SIMONEI play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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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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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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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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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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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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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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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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