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Nina Simone Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 21, 1933 - April 21, 2003

Topics

People Bad Want Leave Up Pieces

Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this 'Beat' voice in my poems. It was like this self-fulfilled prophecy because everybody was calling me this rock poet, this Beat poet.

Myself Me Voice Rock And Roll Rock

I don't wake up in the morning and say, 'Jeez, I feel great today. I think I'll write a song.' I mean, anything is more interesting to me than writing a song. It's like, 'I think I'd like to write a song... No, I guess I better go feed the cat first.' You know what I mean? It's like pulling teeth. I don't enjoy it a bit.

Morning Today Great Me Writing Song

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

John C. Maxwell

Good Respect People Treat Employees

I've had the acting bug since I was, like, five. But growing up, I saw how people treated me differently when they knew who my father was, even the stuff I did on the field. Sometimes I'd rush for 100 yards, and the headline would be, 'Denzel's son runs for 100 yards.' That's where the suppression of that bug came from.

John David Washington

Father Son People Me Growing Up Up

It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.

Me Long Why Matter Audience Come

I don't understand it, how President Johnson can send troops to Vietnam and cannot send troops to Selma, Alabama, to protect people whose only desire is to register to vote.

People Desire Vote Understand Whose

I love working with Byron Saxton and Jerry Lawler, and I hope I continue to do so.

Love Hope Working Continue I Love

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Love Guitar Study Trumpet Would

I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I'm just going to fly them out and let them hang. It's all good.

Work Good Time Fly Friends Out

If I were in a situation where I had to meet a pack of wolves and my family is with me, I'm going to be scared, but I'm not going to hide behind my son to protect me. They're going to hide behind me.

Family Son Me Wolves Hide Situation

I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do.

Music Looking Think My Own Lucky

We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.

Focus Strive Extraordinary Own Our

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