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.
NINA SIMONEMany times I feel different like a different person.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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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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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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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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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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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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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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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 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.
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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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