How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
NINA SIMONEMany times I feel different like a different person.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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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 have a cultured manner of speaking.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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