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.
NINA SIMONEJazz 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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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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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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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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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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and 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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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 a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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