To be young, gifted and black!
NINA SIMONEYou have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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Music is the center of my life.
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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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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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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 the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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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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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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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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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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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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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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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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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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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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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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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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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