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.
NINA SIMONEJazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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 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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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 think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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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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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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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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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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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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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 don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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