Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
NINA SIMONEIf I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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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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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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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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I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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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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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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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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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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