The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
NINA SIMONEWhat kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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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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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Music is the center of my life.
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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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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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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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