Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
NINA SIMONEI know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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’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 don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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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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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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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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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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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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I 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.
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