How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
NINA SIMONE
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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