You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
NINA SIMONEBirds 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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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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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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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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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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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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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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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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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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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 believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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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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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 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 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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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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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