It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
NINA SIMONEI think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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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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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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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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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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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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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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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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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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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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