You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
NINA SIMONEI know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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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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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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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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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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