You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
NINA SIMONEIt’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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You can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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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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I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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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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