It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
NINA SIMONEIt’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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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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’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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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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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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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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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 know I’m different, but I don’t think about 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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Music is the center of my life.
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