This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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Music is the center of my life.
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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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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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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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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 have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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 had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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 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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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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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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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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