Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
NINA SIMONE
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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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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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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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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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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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