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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.

Nina Simone

Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
NINA SIMONE

Day Difficult Emotional Music Myself
I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
NINA SIMONE

Day Demand Myself Perfection Practice
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
NINA SIMONE

Burden Myself Planet Talent
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONE

Doctor Music Myself Yourself
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
NINA SIMONE

Home Name Sound Stage
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.
NINA SIMONE

Failure Start Success Time Work
Desegregation is a joke.
NINA SIMONE

Joke Segregation
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?
NINA SIMONE

Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
NINA SIMONE

Artist Reflection Time
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
NINA SIMONE

Music Myself
Many times I feel different like a different person.
NINA SIMONE

Different Feeling Person Time
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
NINA SIMONE

Excuse Hero Known People Young
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
NINA SIMONE

Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
NINA SIMONE

Instrument Myself Play
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
NINA SIMONE

Instrument Myself Writing
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
NINA SIMONE

Depression Slave Sorrow Time

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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