I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
NINA SIMONEI believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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 had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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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 an art and art has its own rules.
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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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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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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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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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Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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