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Nina Simone Inspirational Quotes (62)

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I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all I think most of them are going to die.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
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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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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.
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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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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.
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The Beatles are lucky, very lucky. But what has happened to them has nothing to do with them, in a sense. They came along at the right time. Attention was focused on them. They've had the chance to grow in almost any direction they wanted. Very lucky. They are not exceptionally talented.
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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 don't like to go to strange places.
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