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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.

Nina Simone

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
NINA SIMONE

Fear Freedom Myself
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
NINA SIMONE

Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
NINA SIMONE

Difficult Hard Money Rule Standard Yourself
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
NINA SIMONE

Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
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

Equipment Myself Particular Thinking
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
NINA SIMONE

Live World Yourself
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONE

Doctor Music Myself Yourself
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
NINA SIMONE

Crazy Drive Home Myself World
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
NINA SIMONE

Life Music Thinking Way
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
NINA SIMONE

Reality Revolution Talk
I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
NINA SIMONE

Myself Place Strange Time Travel
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
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.
NINA SIMONE

Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
NINA SIMONE

Alive Black People Time
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 SIMONE

Economics Forever Myself Rich Thinking
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.
NINA SIMONE

Death Poor Rich Rise Thinking

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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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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