How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
NINA SIMONE
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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