Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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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 tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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 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 try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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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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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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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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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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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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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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Music 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.
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