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 SIMONEYou have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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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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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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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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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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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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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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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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