I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva. Nina Simone More Quotes by Nina Simone More Quotes From Nina Simone I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. Nina Simone no-fear freedom You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served". Nina Simone heart-break heartbreak tables What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did. Nina Simone sane knowing together You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times. Nina Simone duty artist helping 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. Nina Simone how-you-feel life-is-short people Birds flying high you know how I feel Nina Simone flying-high sky inspirational You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served. Nina Simone get-up tables love-is Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know? Nina Simone cutting song mean 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. Nina Simone blow heart romantic Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you. Nina Simone jazz music joy 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 Nina Simone music heart people Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are going to be true to yourself. And if you don't do it - and you are an artist - it punishes you. Nina Simone attention world art It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good. Nina Simone feel-good feelings new-day There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. Nina Simone knowing hero people This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it. Nina Simone made world I know I'm different, but I don't think about it. Nina Simone different knows thinking 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. Nina Simone long america way I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed. Nina Simone alive chance feels Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking. Nina Simone racism america thinking Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. Nina Simone music way thinking
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