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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. — Nina Simone

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served. — Nina Simone

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought. — Nina Simone

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 — Nina Simone

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings. — Nina Simone

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel. — Nina Simone

I don't like to go to strange places. — Nina Simone

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. — Nina Simone

I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier. — Nina Simone

I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy. — Michel Martin

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did. — Nina Simone

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping. — Nina Simone

Desegregation is a joke. — Nina Simone

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember. — Nina Simone

How can you be an artist and not reflect the times? — Nina Simone

I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, she's inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw. — Gina Prince-Bythewood

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking. — Nina Simone

I did a little film called 'Nina,' a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to Nina Simone. Zoe Saldana plays Nina. — Alaina Huffman

I'll tell you what Freedom is to me. No fear. — Nina Simone

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman. — Nina Simone

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day. — Nina Simone

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. — Nina Simone

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan. — Catherine McCormack

I prefer her [Nina Simone] jazz period much more so than her folk period. — Nikki Giovanni

What is love but a prelude to sorrow ... with heartache ahead for your goal. — Nina Simone

As far as influences, I listen to a lot of people like Nina Simone and other androgynous voices, almost to make me feel like I'm not alone. — Shamir

I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher. — Nikki Giovanni

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music. — Nina Simone

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing. — Nina Simone

I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa. — Nina Simone

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it. — Nina Simone

I'm just human, I have faults like anyone — Nina Simone