I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
NINA SIMONE
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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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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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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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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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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 try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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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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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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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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