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

Nina Simone

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
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.
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Equipment Myself Particular Thinking
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 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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Love Man Myself Pay Rich Sea Water
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
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Different Identity Myself Recognition Voice
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Artist Reflection Time
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Important Music Myself Thinking
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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Goal Musician Study
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Human Mistake Myself
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Day Learning Myself
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Depression Slave Sorrow Time
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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Happiness Musician Myself Sorry World
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

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