You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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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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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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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 the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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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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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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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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If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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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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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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