Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
NINA SIMONEThe allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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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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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Music is the center of my life.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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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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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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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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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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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