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Famous Nina Simone Quotes
“Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.”
“You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.”
“I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.”
“Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.”
“I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.”
“Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.”
“I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.”
“I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.”
“When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.”
“That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.”
“If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.”
“Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.”
“Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.”
“Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn't recognize my voice.”