Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
NINA SIMONEThe worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.
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Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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