Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.
Nina SimoneRead
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
Interpretation
The quote reflects the profound emotional experience of sharing poetry with an audience.
Nina Simone emphasizes the deep connection between the artist and the audience, highlighting the power of poetry to resonate with listeners on a profound emotional level. She articulates the challenge of conveying the unique feeling of performing art that touches the hearts and souls of individuals, many of whom may struggle to articulate their own feelings.
In practice
In a speech during a poetry reading event.
Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
I didn't get interested in music. It was a gift from God.
This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.
I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident - split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained - secret - into the body of the light!
I just want different narratives for people of color, especially women of color. I just want something that's different. I don't want us to be put in a box. I want it to be kind of a redefinition of who were are. If I can even achieve that in a tiny way, I'll be good. I'll be good.
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