I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
NINA SIMONEI demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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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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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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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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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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