You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
NINA SIMONEIt’s a good time for black people to be alive.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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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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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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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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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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Music is the center of my life.
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Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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