What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
NINA SIMONE
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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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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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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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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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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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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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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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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I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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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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It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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