Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
NINA SIMONEIt’s a good time for black people to be alive.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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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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Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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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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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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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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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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Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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