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 SIMONEI try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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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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Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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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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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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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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