Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
NINA SIMONEI don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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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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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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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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I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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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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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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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