I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
NINA SIMONEMy name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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 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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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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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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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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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I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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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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