I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
NINA SIMONEThe allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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 was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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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 know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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 would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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