When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
NINA SIMONEMusic 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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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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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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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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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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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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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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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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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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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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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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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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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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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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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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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Music is the center of my life.
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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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’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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