Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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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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 don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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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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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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