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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

Nina Simone

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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Failure Start Success Time Work
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
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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Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
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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Easy Feeling Life Myself People
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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Address Job Myself Popular See Song
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Dreams Myself Show
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Learning Love Serve Table Yourself
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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Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Black Definition Myself People
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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Music Myself
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Addiction Cat Drugs Myself Sound
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Instrument Myself Writing
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
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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Explanation Expression Feeling Poetry Soul Stage Yourself

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