Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
NINA SIMONEI know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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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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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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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 had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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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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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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