I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
NINA SIMONEI have a cultured manner of speaking.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Music 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.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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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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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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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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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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