How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
NINA SIMONEYou’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Desegregation is a joke.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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 the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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