I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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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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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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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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You can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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