I’m a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONEYou can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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.
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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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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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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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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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 think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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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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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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