When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
NINA SIMONEDon’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
More Nina Simone Quotes
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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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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It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do 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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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.
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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 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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Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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