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 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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Music is the center of my life.
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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 think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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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.
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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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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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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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