I have a cultured manner of speaking.
NINA SIMONEMusic is the center of my life.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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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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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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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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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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You can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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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 don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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