Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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.
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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 feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Music is the center of my life.
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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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The 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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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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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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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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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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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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