If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
NINA SIMONEI 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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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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 had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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