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 SIMONEIt 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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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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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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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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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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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I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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