I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
NINA SIMONEIt 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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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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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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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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.
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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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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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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