Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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 feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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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.
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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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