I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
NINA SIMONEThere’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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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Music is the center of my life.
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Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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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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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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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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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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