Real Rebel Quotes by Nina Simone

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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…
• I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.
• I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar…
• I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
• From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
• Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
• I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
• I'm a real rebel with a cause.
• My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa…
• Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . .…
• I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
• I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

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