The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

Nina Simone

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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. by Nina Simone

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

no-fear freedom

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer bein... by Nina Simone

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

sane knowing together

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is... by Nina Simone

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

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.

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Birds flying high you know how I feel by Nina Simone

Birds flying high you know how I feel

flying-high sky inspirational

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being... by Nina Simone

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

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?

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.

blow heart romantic

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not c... by Nina Simone

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

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

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.

attention world art

It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good. by Nina Simone

It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good.

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There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes... by Nina Simone

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

knowing hero people

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in... by Nina Simone

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

I know I'm different, but I don't think about it. by Nina Simone

I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.

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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.

long america way

I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chanc... by Nina Simone

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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Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking. by Nina Simone

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

racism america thinking

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being,... by Nina Simone

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

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