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Nina Simone

I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
NINA SIMONE

Dreams Myself Show
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
NINA SIMONE

Goal Musician Study
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
NINA SIMONE

Fear Freedom Myself
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.
NINA SIMONE

Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONE

Reality Reason Rebel
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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Death Poor Rich Rise Thinking
What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
NINA SIMONE

Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
NINA SIMONE

Human Mistake Myself
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
NINA SIMONE

Day Myself People Politics Singer
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
NINA SIMONE

Live World Yourself
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
NINA SIMONE

Love Man Myself Pay Rich Sea Water
The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
NINA SIMONE

Kind Love Myself Naked People
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
NINA SIMONE

Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
NINA SIMONE

Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
NINA SIMONE

Home Name Sound Stage

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