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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Music is the center of my life.
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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 demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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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