Desegregation is a joke.
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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It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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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.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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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 don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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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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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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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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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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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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