What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
NINA SIMONEThe worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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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’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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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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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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To be young, gifted and black!
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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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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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