Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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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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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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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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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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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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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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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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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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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