I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONEMy 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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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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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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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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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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 think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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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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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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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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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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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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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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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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