It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
NINA SIMONEI don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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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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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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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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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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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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