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.
NINA SIMONETomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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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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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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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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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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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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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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Music is the center of my life.
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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 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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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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