How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
NINA SIMONEIt’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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The 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.
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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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