You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
NINA SIMONEMy name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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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 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 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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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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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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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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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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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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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’m a real rebel with a cause.
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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’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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