Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
NINA SIMONETomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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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I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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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 has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express 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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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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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 feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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