You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
NINA SIMONEI think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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I 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.
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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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I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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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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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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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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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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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 know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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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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It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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