I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
NINA SIMONEWhat is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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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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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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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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Music is the center of my life.
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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 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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Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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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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