When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
NINA SIMONEIt was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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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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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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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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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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