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

Nina Simone

That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
NINA SIMONE

Goal Musician Study
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’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Learning Serve Yourself
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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Bad Communication Live Logic People Reflection Time Yourself
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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Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong
You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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Artist Help Reflection Time
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
Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Different Feeling Person Time
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
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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Economics Forever Myself Rich Thinking
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
NINA SIMONE

Artist Reflection Time
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
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Reality Revolution Talk
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
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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Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
NINA SIMONE

Life Music Thinking Way

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