Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
NINA SIMONEIt was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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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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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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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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