Tag: Nina Simone
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The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators.
Nina Simone
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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
Nina Simone
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I didn’t get interested in music. It was a gift from God.
Nina Simone
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I wasn’t a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.
Nina Simone
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I want to shake people up so bad, that when they leave a nightclub where I’ve performed, I just want them to be to pieces.
Nina Simone
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I flirt all the time. I like men! I don’t think we can do without them.
Nina Simone
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All the time, there was the weight of my community’s expectations on my shoulders.
Nina Simone
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
Nina Simone
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I think that the artists who don’t get involved in preaching messages probably are happier – but you see, I have to live with Nina, and that is very difficult.
Nina Simone
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I’m not a blues singer, I’m a diva.
Nina Simone