You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
NINA SIMONEMusic has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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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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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’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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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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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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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Desegregation is a joke.
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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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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