How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
NINA SIMONEYou’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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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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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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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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I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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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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It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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You 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.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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