When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
NINA SIMONEHow can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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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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Birds 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.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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You can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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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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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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