Music is the center of my life.
NINA SIMONEDesegregation is a joke.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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 drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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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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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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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 a good time for black people to be alive.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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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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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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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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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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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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