You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
NINA SIMONEMusic is an art and art has its own rules.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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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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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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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s 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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It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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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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