I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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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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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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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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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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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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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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