You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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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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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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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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