There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
NINA SIMONEThis is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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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.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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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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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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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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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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