I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONEI tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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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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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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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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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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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 look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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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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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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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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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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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