This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
NINA SIMONEI know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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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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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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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 was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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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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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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