Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
NINA SIMONEI would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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 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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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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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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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 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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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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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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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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.
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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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