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 had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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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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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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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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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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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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