I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
NINA SIMONEI look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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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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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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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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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 would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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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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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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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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