Music is the center of my life.
NINA SIMONEMusic is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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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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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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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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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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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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