I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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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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It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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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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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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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 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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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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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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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 don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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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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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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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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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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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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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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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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