I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONEIf 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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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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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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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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 has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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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 try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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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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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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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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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 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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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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