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.
NINA SIMONEYou can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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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 feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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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.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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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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I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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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 have a cultured manner of speaking.
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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 don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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