Many times I feel different like a different person.
NINA SIMONEHow can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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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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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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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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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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