This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
NINA SIMONEMusic is an art and art has its own rules.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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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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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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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 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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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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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 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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To be young, gifted and black!
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Music is the center of my life.
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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 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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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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