Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
NINA SIMONEI 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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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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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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 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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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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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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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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